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...Mondale camp claims that Falwell, founder of the conservative Moral Majority, draws high negative ratings among key voting groups. For example, Moral Majority is anathema to some Jewish voters, as well as to the Yuppies, who tend to be conservative on economic matters but liberal on social issues, especially abortion. Says a Mondale aide: "Falwell is shorthand for the idea that God controls one candidate and one party...
...negotiations, but it was anathema to an Administration that insisted on subjecting to separate and unequal treatment "fast and slow flyers...
Many economists fear that counter trade could severely weaken, rather than bolster, international commerce. It fosters bilateral agreements at the expense of multilateral trade and can reduce over all world commerce. Says Franklin Root, head of the Wharton School's international business program: "Such arrangements are anathema to the free market." Others disagree. Zenon Carnapas, head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, says that countertrade deals are "a solution of last resort" for struggling LDCS. Still, no one disputes that postwar prosperity was built on the foundation of free and growing trade among nations...
Thirty years after Brown, the group did not have to confront the anathema of legislated discrimination. In its place, however, were issues that continue to concern--and sometimes divide--civil rights activists; affirmative action, charges of separatism and, most of all education...
...some ways, Clark's vision appeared simplistic. Separatism of all kinds was anathema to Clark; he viewed all separatist movements as racism, and racism as "ignorant superstition." His vision only included desegregation and the affirmation of the importance of diversity--he had no tactics planned. When asked what he wanted educators to do. Clark answered in a tired voice, "I don't know, that's why I'm here...