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...negotiations with HEW foundered on the question of what to do with these duplicate programs. Califano demanded that in addition to spending more money on black campuses, North Carolina agree to reduce program duplication if integration lagged during the next four years. He also demanded that the school desist from starting any major, potentially popular, new programs at its white campuses. North Carolina insisted that decisions about where programs were offered were none of HEW's business and that strengthening of courses at the black schools was the key to further integration. Said U.N.C. President William Friday: "Our basic...
...decision, which stems from a 1975 FTC complaint against the A.M.A. and two Connecticut member societies, Barnes ordered the association to "cease and desist" from prohibiting advertising. He also ruled that after a two-year interim, the A.M.A. could issue a new set of ethical guidelines on advertising but only "after first obtaining the permission and approval...
Last week Cronkite sent his RSVP: a telegram demanding that Sakowitz "cease and desist" advertising him as available. It turns out that the store had obtained the names from a speakers bureau that represents Cronkite, but the bureau had never cleared the idea with him. Just one less mouth to feed...
...last spring the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation issued cease and desist orders against Gregory's five banks, charging unsound practices. State bank examiners said the loan to Robert Stapleton was "substandard"; they initially wrote off the loan to Institutional Development Corp. as a "loss," but it was later repaid. Gregory's bank in Macon County closed in January. Another bank, in Wilcox County, Ala., closed in March. On Good Friday, Gregory and Vonna Jo were indicted on Alabama felony charges that they accepted deposits at a bank that was about to be closed...
...Good Friday morning, all of the flags were indeed lowered, but the A.C.L.U. pursued the issue to Washington, where the Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 that Thomson should cease and desist. Up went the flags. Thomson then issued a "nonreligious" decree asking that the flags be lowered because of the '"historical impact on Western civilization of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ." He sent his lawyers back to Judge Skinner to see if that would be legal, but before Judge Skinner could rule, the sun set on Thomson's maneuverings...