Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard will host their season-opener against Brown on March 21st in Blodgett Pool, and will host the MIT game April 4. The Crimson women are excited about their prospects this spring. If the team continues to progress at its present pace, then a repeat performance of last year's success is not impossible...
...team's progress will be measurable because it also plays Brown and MIT later in the season. If the Crimson players improve significantly by tournament time, a second or third-place finish at Easterns May 4 would qualify them for the nationals. Coach: Chris Hafferty Captains: Stacey Moran, Eileen Pratt Last Year: (16-3, 4-0) Home Games: Blodgett Pool The Schedule...
...undeniable progress, the black middle class still seems more to be poised on the banks of the mainstream than to be swimming in its current. Its members are haunted by a feeling of alienation from the white majority with which they have so much in common, a sense that somehow they still do not quite fit in. They speak again and again of "living in two worlds." In one they are judged by their credentials and capabilities. In the other, race still comes first...
...Future progress might be stifled by an economic downturn. University of Maryland sociologist Bart Landry, author of The New Black Middle Class, predicts that by the end of the next decade 56.4% of all black workers and 63% of all white workers will be in the middle class -- provided the economy expands at a healthy clip. If it does not, Landry warns, the expansion of the black middle class could come to a sudden halt. Says he: "During periods when the economy is tight, discrimination asserts itself...
...think adding another structure here to try to push the process along is bad," says Astronomy Deparment Chair Jonathan E. Grindlay. "I don't really see any other practical way to make concerted progress...