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...talk of "liberty," the White House has merely picked up where the segregationists and states' righters of the '50s and '60s left off. "Less government" has nothing to do with it. The tax decision will make it easier for whites in the south and elsewhere to abandon the public schools and form exclusive sanctuaries from their Black neighbors. These all-white academies have been among the most egregious attempts to block integration in the south, and with its decision, the Administration has offered its explicit support to these institutions of bigotry...
Several neighborhood leaders, who asked not to be identified, said they are reluctant to continue effort to pressure the University to preserve the two historically significant buildings at their current locations because Harvard might then decide to abandon the project...
Executives of the nation's largest steel producer agreed. They denounced the Mobil move as "a very reckless action aimed solely at coercing U.S. Steel to abandon its acquisition of Marathon." Reckless or not, Mobil revealed that it already owns 450,000 shares of U.S. Steel. And at the current stock price of $31% a share, the one-quarter ownership of the steelmaker would cost Mobil only about $700 million...
...meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy, twice the mayor's age, takes his own backhanded swipe: "Those poor Hatfields, as I understand it, were too easy with their drinking back then. It took away their sense, made 'em too brave." Given the chance, Hatfields abandon impartiality as well. Says Henry D. cheerfully: "Really, the Hatfields won the feud. Devil Anse would have ended it any time. But Randolph McCoy was so irate. . ." Even Dutch, appalled by his ancestors' attack on a McCoy family home in 1888, reminds a visitor that the victims had "done...
...leadership in 1979 to reverse the unsound and unrealistic plans that were formulated earlier in a race to achieve the so-called four modernizations of post-Mao China: industry, agriculture, defense, and science and technology. Both foreign businessmen and the Chinese, Peking's leaders insisted last week, should abandon any further hopes for a quick economic boom...