Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power to attack discrimination through use of preferential remedies. "Clearly the Philadelphia Plan is color-conscious," wrote Judge John Gibbons, but to strike the scheme down under Title VII the court "would have to attribute to Congress the intention to freeze the status quo and to fore close remedial action [to] overcome existing evils...
...sounded ready for it. He carefully avoided such a fight last year, and on reflection, thinks he should not have. When House Speaker Tip O'Neill told him then how awful it would appear if a Democratic President vetoed Democratic legislation, the image-conscious Carter paid close attention. Now the President's timidity with Congress seemed ended. "I put the 1979 fiscal year budget to bed in December, had it printed up and sent to the Congress in January," he said. "I don't intend to see that budget spending level increased." Carter sounded stubborn, but businessmen...
...then told to explain why-and he better have a pretty good excuse, like illness or hardship in the family. Otherwise, he'd get a reputation for shirking his responsibilities. The vigilance subcommittee of the C.D.R. (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution) would keep an especially close...
...corner of Sutphin Boulevard and whines to a stop in front of the bar, barely missing one of the derelicts lying along the curb. Your token chuckles down the coin slot and you sit back in the plastic seat, comfortable for the first time in an hour. The doors close and you are on your way to the airport, heading away from all those cold quiet faces and their insistent stares...
...deliver his message with bombs. Stilwell had the morality of Oliver Cromwell-he was pure, absolutely pure, of graft, adultery, lying, thieving, or any transgression of the Ten Commandments. Such men served the U.S. Army in those days. Both were necessary-but Chennault had to close down his whorehouse...