Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practical terms, that meant simply, desegregate, and quickly. Then, in 1972, the Court told the School Committee in Denver that even though it had never officially enacted any Jim Crow laws, blacks, whites and hispanics had drifted unacceptably to separate school districts anyway, and that, as they say in the courts, mandated redress. Garrity documented a similar situation in Boston, where, to boot, an in-state Racial Imbalance Act had ordered the city to clean up its act as far back as 1965. The School Committee had disobeyed that act. Garrity, in June 1973, said, briefly, obey...
...didn't vote in the 1974 election." He calls Jimmy Carter "the incarnation of compromise," and to warnings that he might be ruining the Georgian's chances, he responds, "I don't see why the Democrats have to win; they don't stand for anything anyway." Speculating further on his role as a possible spoiler, he asserts, "The issues we are raising are so important that this is a risk we will have to take...
Even without all that, black voters would still be in his corner. Observes David Dinkins, chairman of the Council of Black Elected Democrats of New York State: "We would have to embrace him anyway when you consider the alternative." Many blacks fear that Ford wants to dismantle the remaining social welfare programs that were set up largely for them during Lyndon Johnson's presidency...
...could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from the conservatives in the Republican Party makes him an unlikely prospect for a future national ticket, but Richardson has no doubt about remaining a Republican anyway. Says he: "I believe in a two-party system, and if people like me don't stick with it, no matter how rocky the fortunes of the party, we aren't going to have...
Direct Assault. Initially, Chemical plans to retail stock at only half a dozen of the bank's 259 branches in the New York area. In the end, whatever business the bank generates will go to regular brokerage houses anyway. By law, banks cannot buy or sell stocks for their own accounts; all they can do is act on behalf of customers. The bank will channel orders to a Wall Street broker-presumably a deep discounter willing to work for Chemical's rock-bottom prices, with the bank sharing some of the bookkeeping costs...