Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, Asian-American students and professors have charged the University with employing hidden quotas for admission. Harvard has customarily deflected these accusations by citing its efforts to create a diverse student body and by claiming that fewer Asian-Americans fall into the school's most favored admissions groups: varsity athletes and children of alumni...
Defensive Line: Peterson recorded his 11th sack of the year against Penn, a Harvard record. His accomplishment was hidden in the rubble of last week's blowout loss. The Harvard offense has surrendered 150.6 rushing yards per game but had trouble with Penn running back Bryan Keys, who rushed for 178 yards...
...book requires imaginative effort, and it alternately challenges and intimidates its would-be readers. "The reader capable of deciphering the hidden meaning of a book from the order of its entries has long since vanished from the face of the earth," Pavic notes disdainfully, but I suspect that readers spurned in this eloquent and romantic language will pursue Pavic's meaning with great energy, much as a rejected but dogged suitor would pursue an elusive beloved. I also suspect that Pavic understands this psychology...
...enables viewers to play along with the nightly syndicated show. The unit, when aimed at the TV set, picks up an encoded signal that activates a miniature computer. For each word puzzle, the player can "spin" a wheel to accumulate prize money, choose letters and try to guess the hidden phrase. The TV players' guesses also show up automatically on the home unit...
Students expressed particular resentment at the hidden procedures that led to the changes...