Word: dade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans and Detroit as well. Hiring quotas are among several "race-conscious" remedies that the Reaganauts have tried to abandon. Others include mandatory school busing and denying tax exemptions to segregated schools. Last week, for instance, the department asked a federal court of appeals to throw out a Dade County, Fla., law setting aside construction contracts for minority contractors. But the Birmingham case differs in at least one important respect: back in 1981 the department had promised to defend the original settlement from legal attack...
...which is almost 70% funded by Washington. Because of a lengthy strike at the supplier, the Budd Co., only 20 of Metrorail's planned fleet of 136 cars are ready for service. "We're not going to accept this thing until it's totally right," declares Dade County Manager Merrett Stierheim. That moment will come none too soon. Traffic inches along 1-95, the area's main thoroughfare, six hours of the day, and downtown parking rates run as high as $6 for three hours. Despite the poor start, Metrorail still expects to open its second...
...hospital care. Most victims who are discharged from hospitals, which have neither the facilities nor the money to handle them indefinitely, are forced to fall back on family and friends, plus the support of homosexual organizations. (About 70% of AIDS patients are gay or bisexual.) In Florida's Dade County, which encompasses Miami, only one of the 37 state-licensed nursing homes has ever taken in AIDS victims. Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital has had patients who could have been discharged if a place had been found for them; the hospital has not even been able to find...
...only about 8%. As Dade County Assistant Superintendent Paul Bell has observed: "We have had a major shift of control from the local level to the state board of education, with the legislature acting as a superboard...
...powder's retail worth falls, new, less affluent buyers will become regular customers. The going price per gram is $75 to $100; the glut could cut that to $50 or even $25. Coke is reaching the streets in a purer, stronger form. All this worries Dr. Charles Wetli, Dade County's deputy chief medical examiner: "If the price drops and there is an increase in purity," he warns, "you're going to have a lot more deaths from snorting and free-basing...