Word: dade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jobs or the connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids with no hope in the job market. And in this community, drugs are claiming a lot of them. It's just a horror...
...Barbara Schlei, a Los Angeles attorney who represents management in employment cases. Nonetheless, the climate that nurtured affirmative action has begun to cool perceptibly. "Most companies in the private sector are providing no more than lip service to affirmative action," says Milton Vickers, director of minority business development for Dade County, Fla. "There has been little monitoring for the past four or five years, and you can tell...
...Alpert, director of the University of Miami's Center for the Study of Law and Society. "It's something we'd all like to do. We'd all like to think we would react the way Goetz did." But Kelsey Dorsett, a black leader and president of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce, is troubled by the glorification of Goetz. Said Dorsett: "I'm so afraid that the New York situation might serve as a catalyst to justify people taking justice into their own hands...
...only after holding periods that may range from two days to three weeks. During that hiatus, the bank has, in effect, impounded the money since it receives credit for the check and earns interest on the funds. This angers bank customers and can impose hardships. Says Walter Dartland, a Dade County, Fla., consumer advocate: "Students who get a check from their folks back in Iowa, for example, might have to wait two to three weeks before they can use the money. That puts them in a real bind...
...vast majority of the people want to bring relatives from Cuba," said Juan Clark, a sociology professor at Miami-Dade Community college who last spring surveyed $14 randomly selected refugees here...