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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division are cracking down on what they believe is the widespread use of threats and violence to force migrants and other transients to work. Prosecutors have dusted off a set of slavery and peonage laws originally dating from the 19th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Fighting the New Slavery | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

The city council is the discriminating body in the city. Every Monday at 5:30 p.m., the nine councillors convene and hash out matters ranging from the budget to street names. The members are elected at-large by the Hare proportional system: Cambridge is one of only a handful of...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Harvard's Home: Cambridge, Mass. | 7/15/1983 | See Source »

Complaints made by the students--nine of whom took the course on a pass-fail basis--prompted the committee, which considers the administration of academic courses, to convene the special meeting.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Nixes VES Grade Change | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

The theater community has found a new rite of spring. On the last weekend of March, some 400 professionals-actors and agents, playwrights and directors, critics from every major U.S. publication and from a dozen foreign countries-convene in Louisville in hopes of seeing early productions of significant American dramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rising Above the Murmur | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

For the city of Sheffield alone, according to City Commissioner David Johnson, liquor has meant "the difference between bankruptcy and not. Out of a budget of $2.5 million, we had a deficit of $500,000 going into 1982. We didn't know where to cut-to stop collecting garbage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: Voting Dry and Practicing Wet | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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