Word: bradford
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...Justice Department, which itself signed the 1981 court decree calling for preferential hiring, entered the suit on the side of the male plaintiffs. Although the department states it does not yet know if the charges to reverse discrimination are valid, it stands solidly behind their attack on quotas. William Bradford Reynolds, assistant attorney general for civil rights, blithely explains: "We always side with those people who claim they have suffered discrimination on account of race...
...Justice Department defends its intervention as consistent and evenhanded. "We always side with people who claim they have suffered discrimination on account of race," says Civil Rights Chief William Bradford Reynolds. Indeed, the Birmingham case is not the first time the department has sided with white employees attacking affirmative-action programs. It has joined "reverse discrimination" suits in Boston, New Orleans and Detroit as well. Hiring quotas are among several "race-conscious" remedies that the Reaganauts have tried to abandon. Others include mandatory school busing and denying tax exemptions to segregated schools. Last week, for instance, the department asked...
...Bradford Burns...
...three years, seems to agree. Last week the Justice Department approved a school-desegregation plan for Bakersfield, Calif., that does not include forced busing but instead relies on the creation of four elementary magnet schools to win the voluntary cooperation of the city's white parents. Says William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights: "This is a blueprint for school desegregation in the future without relying on mandatory busing, which does not work in a very meaningful...
...particularly in her duet with Billy. "All Through the Night." but is somewhat awkward in her speaking scenes. Strong supporting performances came from Stephanie Gilbert as Bonnie, a warm hearted, fast talking gangsterette and Jessica Beels as Mrs. Harcourt, a woman born to be a mother-in-law Patrick Bradford skillfully plays an imposing Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, Hope's British fiance who embodies starch until he warms to Reno in the duet...