Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Berman said he would like to see "a body with the flexibility to do whatever students want to do." Sharpless adds that the government "should not have a strong president or claim to represent the views of the entire student body...
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION advocates rightly claim that such preferential treatment is needed to help correct long years of discrimination, abuse and neglect, to help black kids compete on even terms with the white majority. But these minority students are not taking places away only from long-established, well-off white groups--they're also taking them away from the people just above them on the societal ladder, people who have only recently "made it" and are still struggling to move up in society. These groups--Italians, Jews, Germans, Irish, others--have not tyrannized blacks for centuries or profited from the tyranny...
...there's reason for real concern." Should the Administration stick to that line, the steelmen may yet get into a fight with Washington. Industry officials do not say out loud that they probably will raise prices again later in 1978, but their private comments point that way. They claim that the current increases only partly catch up with cost rises already incurred...
Although Tromelin is not even listed in France's principal gazetteers, the French reject the rival claims and insist on retaining possession of the island. Explains a Foreign Ministry spokesman: "It is French territory. There is no reason to give it up." But there is a reason to keep it. France, like most coastal nations, has begun to claim 200-mile economic zones in territorial waters off both the mainland and its remaining overseas possessions. If these are recognized internationally, tiny Tromelin would provide France with a lucrative stake in whatever wealth lies beneath that area of the Indian...
...understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives and for children having trouble with parents, counseling for parents and vocational training. Smith points to an 85% recovery rate for youths with drug problems "once they find the Lord." Confirming the claim. Franklin Jones, a psychiatrist who heads the methadone program at nearby Brea Hospital says: "My own program is a failure. I came here because they're taking kids off heroin cold turkey. What's more, they stay...