Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday, December 6 front page story on science enrollment falling, you cite the fact that Harvard has been boosting acceptance of high school students interested in science to about 40-50 percent of the class in the past few years. Nevertheless, there are 1253 upperclassmen concentrating in sciences, 25 percent of the upperclass population. Obviously, a very large portion of these students changed their mind, and the only difference between the students who have chosen their concentrations and those entering the University, the difference that may make the decision, is a year's experience in Harvard courses...
...concentrators are dropping out. Indeed, many of the people I know who are science majors are in their science in spite of their experience with the department. It is to be expected that first-year students will be discouraged if they do not have a positive experience in their class and they see little improvement in the department in higher-level courses...
Wattleton can be imperious. She travels first-class while her aides ride coach. Recently in Chicago, she retired to a hotel suite for a solitary lunch. As she bit into her sandwich, she asked an aide to get her a Coke. The young woman returned with a can of Pepsi. "Is this all right?" she asked. "No," Wattleton replied. "I said Coke, not Pepsi. There is a difference...
...Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised," she says. "The middle class creates social revolutions. When a group of people are disproportionately concerned with daily survival, it's not likely that they have the resources to go to Washington and march. African-American women are marching with their feet to get abortions...
...seats on the board of Koito Manufacturing, a Tokyo auto-parts maker in which he controls a 20% share. Pickens says Koito has hired Wall Street consultants to advise the company on how to keep him at bay. Meanwhile, a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last August reinstated a class-action suit that Phillips Petroleum shareholders brought against Pickens in 1984. The plaintiffs claim that the value of their stock collapsed when Pickens abruptly abandoned his Phillips takeover...