Word: adds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Atlanta's Fulton County, for example, the commissioners had completed last April an affirmative action plan that would add black employees to the county's payroll at the rate of 4% per year over the next five years, boosting their proportion from 26.6% to 46.6%-the percentage of blacks in the county's total labor force. But when Fulton County Attorney Robert Young read the Supreme Court's Bakke ruling, he told the commissioners that parts of their new hiring plan were illegal. County affirmative-action officers, said Young, "would direct department heads not to hire...
...last Saturday's New York Times, for example, a cursory inspection of the news section revealed several stories bearing menacing portents, directly or otherwise. These items were only connected loosely, in that they add up to one inescapable, and hardly novel, conclusion: America bloats with inertia, and as the torpor grows, rational actions dwindle. Although Fridays in July are supposed to be slow news days, a speculative reader could not help but feel bewildered after reading these seemingly disparate stories...
...then there lurks, as ever, the wonderful world of big business. To add to the normal abuses that constitute "good business" in America, every now and then factories turn out products that manage to beat out their planned obsolescence by several years, and with a vengeance. A classic example if the Ford Pinto, circa 1971-'75. It seems there's something wrong with the gas tanks in some of these Pintos that causes them to explode after a direct, though not necessarily hard, rear-end collision; this tends to fry the unlucky occupants. Late last year a California man sizzled...
...Callahan has told several of his stories to my students, and to your excellent article on how he has revived the art of storytelling [June 19] I can add only one detail. Jay is the master of his craft. He not only makes storytelling look easy, but he puts his listeners in touch with their own stories within themselves...
...soaring cost of medical school has to be a deterrent." Tuition at Georgetown University School of Medicine has risen to a staggering $12,500 a year, the highest in the nation. At other schools, says the A.A.M.C., tuition and fees run from $2,200 to $9,150 a year. Add to that the cost of room, board and books, and the burden becomes even more formidable...