Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court-ordered desegregation went into effect in Memphis in 1973, the white enrollment in the schools has declined from 50% to 30%. Schools in Inglewood, Calif., were 62% white when integrated in 1970; now they are 80% nonwhite, and a federal court agreed in May to let the city abandon crosstown busing since it no longer can accomplish desegregation...
...these new responsibilities do not mean that Arthurs will have to abandon completely her concerns of the past two years. "I'll still play a role in admissions," she says, "but it won't be a central or pivotal role. I'll read some folders, sit in on committee meetings." Arthurs will remain a member of the Faculty's standing committee on admissions and financial aid and will probably chair a sub-committee that will review the results of the first year of equal access. It is a task she is looking forward...
...renewing their loans. Bankers who have underwritten the city's bonds and notes might be hit by lawsuits from investors, claiming that the underwriters should have known and disclosed the true financial condition of New York. Worried about the city's future, more and more corporations might abandon the nation's biggest headquarters town...
...screamed to Kobrzynski to abandon the woman and come back, but his voice was drowned by the turbines' whine. Working the controls with his right hand, Meeker lifted off and hovered briefly, trying to draw the guns away from his friend. Realizing that he could no longer help him, Meeker raced for the Austrian border four miles away. Blood from his wounds made his maps unreadable, and the damaged turbine gulped twice as much fuel as it was supposed to. Luckily, Meeker knew his way through the difficult terrain and dangerous wind currents. He set the chopper down where...
That threat raises the faint hope that a few years of family time might drive some crime shows off the air. What is more likely, however, is that local stations will simply abandon the optional N.A.B. code. After all, cops and robbers are the most popular enduring fare. Now, in the steamy climate of lost tempers, producers of all kinds are discussing lawsuits. One approach is on constitutional grounds: family time violates the First Amendment. The second involves an antitrust action that the networks' agreement to ban violent shows from early prime time amounts to collusion. In the fuss...