Word: kirkland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempts to legislate a higher minimum. Just last June, Bush vetoed an increase to $4.55 an hour. He was responding to arguments from business that a higher minimum would force 200,000 workers to lose their jobs. The logjam broke two weeks ago, however, when AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland suggested a compromise plan to the White House...
...wouldn't have come here unless I thought we'd have a reasonable chance of winning a national title," the Kirkland House resident says. "There are a lot of great hockey players here that are really into school--they're true student-athletes. I couldn't honestly call myself that without a smirk on my face. My first priority was to pick a school that would be on the doorstep of a championship. I would never, never go to a school that was going...
...there more athletic types in Kirkland than in Adams. At the risk of going too far out on a limb, I'm going to say yes. But the residents of both houses, people mature and intelligent enough to make decisions for themselves, chose to live with people of similar interests, thinking that such an arrangement was not inherently evil...
...case of athletes in Kirkland House, it hurts non-athletes in Kirkland who feel uncomfortable with their surroundings. It hurts athletes who lose the chance to live in a maximally diverse house. It hurts students who would otherwise like to live in Kirkland, but who are discouraged by the stereotype. And it hurts students in other houses who might miss the chance to share a house with athletes...
After all, "anywhere but Adams, Eliot or Kirkland," is a perenially popular first-choice house. Students who are disinclined to live in stereotyped houses could still avoid them under the non-ordered choice system. Non-ordered choice would thus introduce randomization to every house except the ones that need...