Word: alaskan
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...second bill which Burke introduced ensured equal employment opportunity on the Alaskan pipeline by binding federal pipeline funds to the enactment of an affirmative action program. The "Burke Amendment" eventually resulted in the awarding of $312 million in contracts to women and minorities and, as Burke notes, "established a precedent for a different approach to affirmative action in contracts...
...refusal to sell Alaskan oil to his country and the Allies post-World War II limit on Japan's defense spending have also added to the trade deficit, Amaya said. Japan's defense budget is limited to less than two percent of its gross national product...
...about them; the Boston Globe ran a front-page story about them in December; Reuters News Service has carried stories about them, as has the Associated Press. Indeed, it is because of the AP stories that Qul and his two sons have received an invitation from the Institute for Alaskan Affairs, a non-profit group in Fairbanks, to visit Alaska during the last two weeks in March and discuss the possibility of settling there...
...affair, is limited to what it can do by law. Murphy, with the State Department Pakistan desk, says the case of the Kirghiz has been "flopping around for about two years because of a lack of focus to it." He adds that he was "delighted" that the Institute for Alaskan Studies had taken up the Kirghiz cause. But the department, Murphy says, is a bureaucracy, and as such does not have the means to help beyond the processing the papers...
Home educated in an Alaskan village of 11 people, Helmericks came to Harvard after high school at a Fairbanks, Alaska, boarding school. He now divides his time between rowing lightweight crew and writing his Geology thesis...