Word: abolitionism
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SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807, by James Pope-Hennessy. The author documents the vast complex of international crime that sold people for profit-from its origins on the 15th century African Gold Coast to the Abolition Act of 1807.
The justification for junior generals was always mysterious--they seemed at best a mechanical device for cutting down the number of seniors writing theses. The exams could have weakened junior tutorial, but with rumors of their impending abolition in the air, they probably did little harm this year as most...
Coupled with the new law's abolition of graduate deferments for all but medical students, Johnson's inaction left the Defense Department with 1.1 million eligible men and no way to select its quota of 300,000 except by descending age-sequence: oldest men first. With that procedure, two-thirds...
To cut spending on travel outside the Western Hemisphere by $350 million a year, part of a program to trim $3 billion from the estimated $3.5 billion to $4 billion balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective...
Before taking the $40,000 Cleveland post, Briggs demanded the abolition of an outdated troika system, in which three autonomous administrators reported separately to the school board on curriculum, finance and architecture. In a series of conferences with business leaders, he also insisted on assurances of community support, since "I...