Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Boston Area Congress for Tenants' Rights (BACTR) had planned to enter Temple Emmanuel to interrupt the bar mitzvah ceremony of the grandson of Boston landlord Maurice Gordon. His son, Robert Gordon, is on the synagogue's hoard of directors...
...chief of staff at Columbia Hospital for Women, says: "I don't think that tomorrow morning we would say anyone could just request an abortion and have it done." Dr. Frank S. Bacon, head of the D.C. Medical Society, thinks most doctors will go slow on abortion until Congress and the Supreme Court clear up the "legal and social" issues...
...practice of "buy-in," long familiar to the aircraft and electronics industries. A company "buying in" enters a low bid to get a military contract, then submits enough overrun claims later to turn a handsome profit. The Navy, too, is guilty of a form of buyin. It submits to Congress fairly low requests for funds, then returns for more to pay for overruns...
...demand. The 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which tied quotas to the national and racial elements already in the U.S., arbitrarily barred great numbers of blacks, Orientals and Southern Europeans, no matter what their skills. To right that inequity, and to satisfy the changing job needs of the economy, Congress in 1965 passed a law that in most cases admits immigrants on the basis of their skills or close relationship to U.S. citizens. For all its good intentions, the law has made it even tougher for many foreigners-even those equipped with special skills-to enter...
...Congress did provide specific job criteria-along with an annual quota of 170,000-for countries outside the Western Hemisphere. The law gives first call to spouses and unmarried children of U.S. citizens. So many of them applied from certain countries, mainly Italy and the Philippines, that skilled workers were left on a 17-month waiting list. The new bill would relieve the pressure by lowering the percentage of relatives admitted, creating more openings for workers with special abilities...