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This argues heavily that the absence of a national effort to develop the female applicant pool is a widespread and latent from of discrimination. Despite a large increase in the number of young people in colleges, the percentage of women enrolled has not risen in five years. It is no secret that this is due primarily to quotas on female enrollment...
Immune-suppressing drugs are not the only causes of cancer in transplant patients. "The graft-rejection response itself can activate from a latent state a virus capable of causing tumors," Hirsch said...
...attentive to the needs of blacks, he was often remarkably insensitive to the feelings of other ethnic groups in the city. He casually backed the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment that eventually pitted black militants against the largely Jewish teachers union in a struggle for control of a school district. Latent ethnic antagonisms erupted brutally into the open, making integration all the harder to accomplish...
...same time, he notes a surprising degree of "tribalism" in the minds of many Europeans. When the World Council allocated $500,000 in 1970 to support African liberation movements, for example, it received virulent criticism. "The European churches," he says, "have not faced in adequate depth the latent racism in their societies, though racial feeling is not nearly as strong in Europe today as in America...
...blow of his departure? Is it possible that he wants to bring a little fleshly warmth into Lacey's loveless and lonely life? Finally, as we see the ashen, tearless desolation on Lacey's face after Perew leaves, must we not wonder if they are two latent homosexuals...