Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joseph L. Rauh Jr., civil rights lawyer and longtime advocate of busing: "We're in a period of retreat on school integration, and this is the first major advance. It's a lighthouse for those who still feel they want more integration instead of less. It says you can't just leave all white in one place and all black in another...
William L. Taylor (no relation to the Dallas judge), director of the Center for National Policy Review, a public interest law group that specializes in civil rights: "Some people thought the law was changing, but this decision is an indication that there are still legal requirements. That doesn't mean that you can't have magnet schools and improve the educational offering. What it means is that you can't use the magnet schools as a substitute for true desegregation...
...thanks in large part to an unlikely bureaucrat named Alfred Kahn. A lean, balding, hatchet-faced man who teeters back and forth in his high-backed leather chair, Kahn, 60, looks like a restless hawk. The image is apt. In less than a year as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, he has outdone any of his predecessors in shooing the airlines out of the cozy hen house of Government supervision that has protected and confined them for 40 years. By opening the door to all-out competition, Kahn has drastically, and probably permanently, changed the U.S. airline industry...
Chief Justice Warren Burger, dissenting with Justice William Rehnquist, maintained that Congress in its 1964 Civil Rights Act never intended an "effect upon pension plans so revolutionary and discriminatory−this time favorable to women at the expense of men." At least for the time being, the court's ruling is limited to contributory pension plans−most of which are for public employees−in which women make a greater contribution. The ruling does not yet invalidate plans in which the contributions are equal but not the benefits...
...Frick, the Mellons began their rise amid the soot and grime of Pittsburgh. Born on a farm in Ireland, Paul's grandfather, Thomas, broke away from both the homeland and the land itself to become a lawyer, judge, banker and father of eight children. In the post-Civil War era the Mellons gained control of most of what was worth owning in Pittsburgh, which was a fair part of what was worth owning in industrial America...