Word: clara
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...Foundation is a $30-million memorial fund set up by Congress in 1975 to award annual scholarships to second-year college students who have demonstrated "an outstanding potential for a career in public service," said Clara J. Reed, a Foundation spokesman...
After four gritty years working on the road for the Santa Clara County transportation agency -- patching holes, shoveling asphalt, opening culverts -- Diane Joyce applied in 1980 for a less strenuous desk job as a road dispatcher. At the time not one of the California agency's 238 skilled positions was held by a woman. Joyce knew, however, that two years earlier the county had enacted a voluntary affirmative-action policy designed to correct that imbalance...
...most significant affirmative-action decision since the murky resolution of Bakke's case against the University of California in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 last week that it was permissible for the Santa Clara agency to take sex and race into account in employment decisions. "I'm very proud," said Joyce. "I've waited a long time for this." Said Johnson, who is now retired and lives in Washington State: "I'm shocked and disappointed. A ruling like this will cause prejudice in people who have never been prejudiced before...
Some phones come with voice-recognition devices that enable them to follow verbal orders. These phones have proved especially popular with drivers, who can make a call while keeping both hands on the wheel. Innovative Devices, of Santa Clara, Calif., sells a car phone that "listens" for about $200. Once the owner has programmed up to 100 names, along with the corresponding numbers, he simply tells the phone to call George or Leslie...
After a piano prelude performed by Clara S. Chan '87, Hunt, a Quincy House fellow, opened the proceedings with recollections of Aloian's wide and varied interests in the life of the College. He noted Aloian's love of Quincy House, his work as executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, and his important contribution to the 350th Celebration. Hunt said that Aloian's efforts helped to make the 350th "a family affair...