Word: davises
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Peter Rodman Davis, Calif.
He thereupon declared that the court had ruled in favor of Allan Bakke, 38, the California engineer who so desperately wanted to be a doctor and would now finally have his opportunity. In a 5-to-4 decision, the court affirmed the lower-court order admitting him to medical school...
Brennan agreed that racial preference could not be condoned simply on the grounds that it was being undertaken for benign purposes. But he thought the Davis program for minority applicants was justified. It aimed to remedy "substantial and chronic underrepresentation" of minorities in the field of medicine. No proof is...
The bearer of these tidings is A. transmontanus, the big Pacific sturgeon. A sister under the skin to the Black Sea species, it runs naturally up California's Sacramento River. (In the 19th century, sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of...
Capitalism swam in with Swedish-born Mats and Daphne Engstrom, whose California Sunshine Inc. has worked for two years to make caviar pearls of Davis-raised A. transmontanus eggs. One day last week the California consortium transformed the U.S. Senate's Mike Mansfield Room into a caviarteria. The guests...