Word: arsenal
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...white supremacy." If the tables were turned and blacks were in the majority, wouldn't they seek a priority position over whites? It may be that Farrakhan is interested in a better life for blacks, but his main concern is power and influence for himself. He uses an arsenal of hate, malice and jealousy to gain power. MORRIS B. HART Schaumburg, Illinois...
Under the compromise, the new Arsenal Square extension of the historical district will include 20 Garden St., which contains the Registrar's Office. It will not include 29 Garden St., as the commission originally proposed...
Diane Ravitch, senior research scholar at New York University, who was an Assistant Secretary of Education under George Bush, is worried that these temporary setbacks will sour people on the idea of contracting private companies to run public schools. In fact, says Ravitch, schools need "an arsenal of approaches" to blast away at the public education crisis, including magnet and charter schools. "You can't tell kids in poor schools to hang on and five years from now the school will turn around," says Ravitch. "Their time...
...closest advisers convened an urgent meeting in the Kremlin. Among those present was Alexander Korzhakov, the former KGB officer who serves as Yeltsin's top bodyguard and crony. The gist of the meeting was that under no circumstance should the briefcase containing the codes for Russia's nuclear arsenal be transferred to Chernomyrdin. That briefcase is with Yeltsin in his hospital room. Korzhakov is one of the few people who have been allowed to see Yeltsin, so he is in the best position to take control of the codes. At the Kremlin meeting he noted that whoever holds...
Employers, of course, have their own arsenal of weapons for turning back organizing attempts. Companies can often keep unions at bay simply by firing employees who seem sympathetic to an organizer's pitch. Forklift driver Jerome Childs filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last month after Preferred Consolidated, a Chicago-area warehouse operator, laid him off. The firm says the dismissal was for gashing the wrapping on a palette of Styrofoam boxes that Childs had been told to unload quickly. Childs says it was for favoring representation by Unite, a recently formed combination of clothing-workers' unions...