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Mansfield: About Mr. Hollis remark about Blacks looking to find jobs outside the automotive action area. I think the best way to do that however would be to abolish alternative action and do away with those special appointment which are institutionalized by alternative action. This, I think, would move us away from the tokenism of the 12 percent across the board approach Blacks now are perfectly capable of organizing themselves as individuals, and as a group to undertake positions which are not especially set up for them...
Those persons who sought to abolish slavery were told that to do so would wrongfully deprive the slave holders of their constitutional right to own property. Furthermore, they were warned that abolition would provoke unprecedented hostility toward the freed slaves and their supporters...
Flynn, who helped lead South Boston's opposition to court-ordered busing in 1974 and introduced a bill in the state legislature to abolish compulsory education, pledged yesterday that the health of the public school sys- tem would be one of his top concerns...
Fowler should watch television more than one hour a week. If he did, he would not want to abolish the 16 min.-per-hr. limit on commercials. Without that maximum, it would be, "We interrupt these commercials to bring you entertainment...
...calculus of the right, flag and family have never been independent variables: A threat to one is a threat to the other. Communism would abolish the family, and conversely, any loosening of our traditional sex roles would weaken our defense against communism. So you did not have to believe in the natural inferiority of women, or in the necessity of their natural confinement to the high-tech purdah of American middle class kitchens, to see that there was something menacing about feminism...