Word: colorado
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...used the town as one example of a place where many down-on-their-luck people can be found. I'm tired of Needles bashers. Needles is the Velveteen Rabbit of citydom. It has a proud heritage that reaches far back. The first ferries, then bridges over the Colorado River at Needles allowed the Golden State of California to become what it is today. General George Patton camped his troops in the Needles valley during World War II. Eleanor Roosevelt stopped and spent the night in Needles on a cross-country bus trip. The Needles economy was booming, with...
...decision, the Supreme Court ruled thatfederal affirmative action programsmust adhere to the same strict standards as the states when offering help to minorities. The decision reverses a 1980 ruling that had allowed Congress greater leeway than the states in creating such programs. The case involved Randy Pech, a white Colorado contractor, who charged that a federal program offering government contractors financial incentives to use minority-owned firms as subcontractors unfairly discriminated against his business. Writing for the majority, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the government must show that racial preference programs "serve a compelling government interest" and will...
Edie Greene, a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado who is on sabbatical this year at Harvard Law School, married at 35 and then had her two children, David, 5, and Rebecca...
...University of Colorado, Greene alsostays home half days three days a week. And Friendreports often bringing Ayse and Kurt to work withher...
...Clinton Administration will not join the court fight against Colorado's ban onlaws that would protect homosexuals from discrimination. Attorney General Janet Reno said she would not file an amicus brief supporting the elimination of the ban, as many civil and gay rights groups had urged, because "there was no federal program or statute involved." Disappointed activists accused the Justice Department of running away from an important civil rights issue for political reasons. While Reno denied politics had anything to do with her decision, TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen says that politics had to be a consideration. "We wouldn...