Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present Panthers did not waste time with '60s-style protests and sloganeering: last month they blind-sided the city by turning in petitions signed by 35,000 people that called for the ouster of Mayor Feinstein. That was more than enough signatures to force only the second mayoral recall election in San Francisco since...
...blind, unrecognized passion for Catherine, Eddie turns viciously against Rodolpho, libeling him as a homosexual, mostly because he sings tenor and cooks. In an impotent fury, Eddie turns informer to the immigration office and triggers his own death...
...main parts: 1) a one-year delay in pay raises for military and civilian employees of the Federal Government and in pension increases for their retired predecessors; 2) a six-month hold on cost of living adjustments (COLAS) in Social Security benefits; in Supplemental Security Income for the needy blind, elderly and disabled; in railroad retirement and veterans' pensions and in food stamps and child-nutrition programs; 3) a recommendation that Congress hold spending for many other programs close to 1983 dollar totals...
...Justice Department's watchful eye, curiously blind to such evidence, is not fixed solely on the public schools. The Department has also recently intervened in state cases involving affirmative action plans in public employment. In New Orleans, the Department is opposing a preferential hiring program for police, launched because the police department administration says it needs more Black officers to improve citywide protection. (Similar affirmative action plans have been approved by lower courts, and other cities are successfully phasing them...
...Robert Oppenheimer and F.D.R. And the letters are full of MacLeish's articulate and often beautifully phrased observations on everything from political campaign strategies to the function of poetry. What emerges is a cohesive portrait of a powerful and flexible mind, of a man with human weaknesses and blind spots but also considerable generosity, wit, judgment and brilliance...