Word: courting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blacks insist that affirmative action, which means, in effect, special consideration, is needed to help them overcome the handicaps imposed by centuries of discrimination in the U.S. Many Jewish organizations agree in principle-but several filed briefs in the celebrated Bakke and DeFunis cases, arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court must not permit racial quotas, a stand that blacks fear could prohibit the setting of specific goals and timetables for minority hiring or admissions. Jews have bitter memories of the days when such quotas were used to limit their numbers in fields where they are now relatively numerous, such...
...page audit, which was prepared by the European Court of Auditors and promptly leaked to the West German weekly Stern, disclosed that the commissioners, who administer the E.C., had run up expenses that cost taxpayers from the nine Common Market nations a total of $1.4 million last year. In addition the commissioners were paid $2.1 million in salaries and allowances. The auditors turned up such items as Jenkins' $3,842 bill for liquor consumed in his Brussels office, Danish Commissioner Finn Olav Gundelach's $126,993 transportation tab, and West German Commissioner Wilhelm Haferkamp...
...provide quick, indisputable and fair compensation for victims' families in the future, Kennelly suggests a system of no-fault insurance. Uniform guidelines would be established that would specify the settlement for each heir, weighing the same factors - victim's age, income and so forth - that a court now considers before making awards. Kennelly acknowledges at least one consequence of hi proposal: "If they standardize awards, it does away with...
...section keeps readers posted on the doings of Government and media luminaries, and an "Update" column concisely covers developments along such news-fronts as national health insurance, coal-burning rules and tax cut alternatives. A regular feature called "At a Glance" capsulizes the status of 24 major bills, regulations, court cases and other issues. The magazine has even begun to crack a smile on occasion. Not long ago, for instance, Correspondent Richard Corrigan parodied Howard Cosell in an article about the congressional battle over President Carter's first energy plan...
...essential Bowles plot charts a clash between two cultures, one usually Western and the other primitive. Primitive almost always gets the home court advantage; Bowles favors settings in North Africa, near the deadly lure of the Sahara, or in stifling, vegetation-choked places in Mexico or South America. Visitors come to feast on the picturesque and take one step too many off the beaten path. From that point on, they are more truly on their own than they ever dreamed possible. Sometimes their fate is terrible. In A Distant Episode, a linguistics professor studying North African dialects stumbles foolishly into...