Word: accomplishing
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...none of its cases, said Brennan, had the Supreme Court ever ruled that the Constitution is color blind. It does not make sense, he declared, to try to eliminate the evil of racial discrimination and then forbid the remedies that are required to accomplish this. Congress avoided any "static definition of discrimination in favor of broad language that could be shaped by experience, administrative necessity and evolving judicial doctrine...
...mathematical representation by sex and ethnic group in institutions. The University of North Carolina, for example, now has a well-deserved reputation in the South for liberalism on race, but after a court order requiring greater efforts to accomplish integration, HEW threatened to withdraw $89 million in federal funds if the school did not increase the enrollment of blacks, who constituted 6% of the students on the main campus. The university argued that the figure was so low because blacks could not meet the school's entrance standards as well as whites. When HEW demanded that the number...
Rosovsky answers some Core critics, who contend that the program will give rise to a number of large, superficial lecture courses, by pointing out that the Core guidelines should prevent an uncontrolled proliferation of "weak" courses. "It's really clear what we want the courses to accomplish," he says, adding that the questions of size and superficiality are separate issues. "You can design larger courses to be as good as smaller courses," he notes, pointing to Ec 10 as the model of a course that, despite its size, still maintains a detailed approach to a complex subject...
...community's reaction has also been one of surprise and questioning. Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy comments, "I remember reading something about it in the newspaper. But tell me, what are they trying to do? Why can't they accomplish the same thing within a department?" Danehy adds that he is probably not the best person to discuss Harvard's landlord practices in Cambridge, because he just doesn't know what's been going on. Cambridge City Councilor David C. Wylie, however, offers both optimistic and pessimistic speculations on what Harvard's new system could mean for the city. "Maybe...
...spiritual anguish. But the philosophical and moral message of the play is much closer to post-Marxian France than to Rome during the Pax Romana. The young, callow Caligula recognizes the hypocrisy of the dominant values and mores. Devoted to exposing the irrationality of society, he sets out to accomplish the impossible--"to capture the moon"--by personally transforming the very fabric of civilization...