Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Furthermore, lower-income students who did come to Harvard faced additional pressures. Green said she came from a background that made coming through Harvard difficult. Her father attended school through eighth grade, and her mother dropped out to marry him. Her sister went to Kentucky State and earned a Masters degree, but Green was the first in her family to go to a prestigious Ivy League school and to attend law school...
...would not have put my finger on it at the time," she said, but her background gave her unique problems to face. Coming to Harvard she was for the first time faced with peers who could afford "expensive clothing and going...
...instance of minority admissions in general, Harvard should allocated more funds for minority recruitment, openly address biases for or against students of different economic background and remind itself and the community of its commitment to provide top education to all in this country who could serve others with...
Meanwhile, scientists at the National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy in Italy have found neutron emissions up to 100 times the normal background level in a high-pressure apparatus that used no electrical current...
...researchers at the Institute of Energy and Nuclear Research at Sao Paulo University in Brazil announced at a press conference two days ago that they had measured neutron emission at twice normal background levels, which stands in sharp contrast to the much higher levels reported by the Italian group...