Word: boded
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Last week in two other primary preludes to crucial Senate elections, the results seemed to bode well for Democrats. In South Dakota, incumbent Senator James Abdnor fended off a challenge from retiring Governor William Janklow in the Republican primary; he will face the popular four-term Congressman Tom Daschle, the state's lone representative in the House. At Daschle headquarters, his campaign workers applauded Abdnor's victory. They felt the tough-talking Janklow would have been a more formidable opponent...
...next tests will come shortly. The Justices have two more major cases on the subject to decide by July, one involving fire-department promotions in Cleveland, the other the imposition of a minority-membership goal on a New York City union. Last week's decision would seem to bode well for those and other affirmative-action schemes. But William Bradford Reynolds, the combative Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, insisted that he could still hear the Justices playing his tune. Because they had required a showing of prior discrimination before the use of racial preferences, Reynolds now contends that...
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John W. Bode last month sharply attacked the January report, on which the new report was based, calling it "Grossly innaccurate...
...food stamp program does not now serve a smaller proportion of eligible people than it did five years ago, said Bode, who last month wrote a letter to President Derek C. Bok criticizing the task force's earlier "hunger county" report...
...Bode cited Department of Agriculture statistics indicating that the fraction of eligible people receiving food stamps has risen from 45 percent to 62 percent since...