Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have written to every Congressman, and I have talked to scores of Congressmen and Senators, as well as 20 Governors. I have said that welfare is the Middle East of U.S. politics. It is the most complicated political and economic problem I have ever dealt with. But the present system is so fraught with fraud and errors and antifamily incentives that we have a chance of moving...
...institutions that are controlled by one racial group that arbitrarily limits the participation of the members of other racial groups in society. Any indicators of participation--income, occupation, education, life-expectancy, community decision making--demonstrate that people identified with black and brown racial populations have been arbitrarily excluded and dealt with in unfair ways. Because the basis for treating groups of people unjustly is their race, such unjust practices are appropriately labeled racism and the practitioners appropriately should be called racists. Institutional racism may be practiced by any group that controls the systems of society. Racists, therefore, could be blacks...
City Councilor David Clem said yesterday that until the new regulations--which went into effect immediately after the council's eight to one vote--passed, the police department dealt with street performers arbitrarily...
Last week, in a 7 to 2 decision, the Supreme Court sidestepped the constitutional problems in the case, but it dealt what dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall called "a fatal blow" to most of the means of enforcing the Civil Rights Act in religious cases. The majority decision, written by Byron White, said that many employees had "strong but perhaps nonreligious reasons for not working on weekends," and that the law cannot be construed to "require an employer to discriminate against some employees in order to enable others to observe their Sabbath." White said there was no objection to employers...
...would be different, perhaps, if Trilling pulled the reader along, meeting arguments, persuading one to see the logic behind her position. But because her positions rest so completely on assumptions and faith, Trilling can only deal with disagreement as the church once dealt with heretics; quarrels over her conclusions rapidly degenerate to the level of medieval clerics hurling epithets. The argument is reduced to long and involved footnotes, in which Trilling uses personal attacks to discredit her opponent...