Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glazer's comments suggest that it is enough that some Asian-Americans enjoy highly visible success in the U.S. It is easy to draw from the growing numbers of Asian-American students, family businesses and professionals, as Glazer does, that "The fact is that the public concern in this country with minority problems is not with minorities that don't make problems...
That may be so. But it reveals the flaw that whoever voices "the public concern" in America risks allowing problems to fester as long as they remain covered beneath a skin of civility...
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...White House also remains committed to overturning Roe v. Wade. The Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to do that in two important cases it will hear this week. Both concern state laws requiring that one or both parents be notified before a teenager can get an abortion. By calling for Roe to be reversed, the Justice Department has gone beyond the position taken by the states involved, Ohio and Minnesota. They argue that their laws could be upheld within the interpretation of Roe that the court adopted in July, when it gave states greater power to restrict abortion...
...most sweeping of the panel's 30 recommendations concern financial disclosure. Elected officials, high-ranking civil servants and candidates for city office would have to make public the exact amount of their income and investments, including their homes, and even list the names of their stockbrokers. Lobbyists who received more than $1,000 a year to influence city officials would have to disclose their transactions each quarter. Taken together, the proposed regulations could affect as many as 1,500 of Los Angeles' 45,000 employees, as well as an undetermined number of lobbyists and candidates...