Word: breaking
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...than it answered. The Supreme Court outlawed explicit racial quotas for admission to universities receiving federal funds, while ruling that race could still be a factor in selecting applicants. But the court did not say how far employers could go with affirmative-action programs designed to give minorities a break, programs that often use quotas and also affect millions of workers...
...transition may be bumpy at first.Sills, a charmingly mettlesome Norina in the Met's effervescent new production of Don Pasquale, has a full performance schedule through 1980. She will cut back. But some promises may be impossible to break, such as the San Diego Opera premiere next June of a new opera written for her by Gian Carlo Menotti. Sills has little administrative experience, but she has a sharp, well-organized mind. During the past seven months, she has spent every free moment trailing the City Opera managing director. Says she: "I have learned everything: how subscriptions work...
Thus that first sign of an overextended consumer, a rise in loan delinquency rates, has yet to occur. Mortgage loan delinquencies are at an alltime low, reports Claude Pope, the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association, and the "loan collector" who used to break the thumbs of widows and orphans has been renamed a "loan counselor." But if the economy slows as expected next year, it is going to take an awful lot of counseling to advise the American people about how to carry a trillion dollars of debt...
Taking the muted approach, Stewart and his staff convened all 107 high school teachers at 7:15 a.m. and urged them to break the news to small groups of students during homeroom periods. "We decided not to interrupt school routine in any way," he said. During the day, the school's seven guidance counselors, joined by 15 Ridgewood clergymen, set up desks around the high school, offering counseling to any students who wanted...
...Steve Boehlke, 30, director of youth fellowship at Ridgewood's West Side Presbyterian Church, agrees. "These kids feel they have to look out for themselves because no one else will. It's a very lonely experience." To break through that psychological barrier, Boehlke is forming a new group, a fellowship of adult church members who want to learn how to relate to their children. Eighty parents came to the first meeting...