Word: institutionalized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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In the meantime, Greenspan also urged federal regulators to take a hint from the GAO report released last week and try to tighten their supervision of banking operations. The report noted that 22 of the 406 banks that failed in 1988 and 1989 never appeared on the FDIC's problem...
But Bicker in the late 1950s, as Wolff describes it, was a positively hellish experience. "The institution of Bicker is too perversely odd for my fancy to have fabricated," Wolff writes in the author's note. Sophomores register themselves in "Preferentials," groups of students who want to join the same...
To be fair, Silber has been an able adminstrator at B.U. Under his leadership, the University's academic prestige has increased dramatically. But the dictatorial methods he used to achieve these ends underscore the simple fact that he is unfit to be the governor of this or any other state...
With each each year in office, Bok has grown more conservative, and more willing to sacrifice crucial values for the sake of tradition or financial success. Ultimately, Bok became an actual obstacle to reform, and he leaves Harvard much the same closed institution it was 20 years ago...his decision...
...years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits derived from institutionalized racism...