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Labor chiefs dismiss the setbacks as temporary. They admit that the customarily well-oiled AFL-CIO lobbying apparatus stumbled badly on the common-situs bill by ignoring warnings that the measure was in trouble until 48 hours before the vote. But, says Thomas Donahue, Meany's top assistant, "when you knock us down once, you don't get any prize. We've been down before, dusted ourselves off, and come back-and we will again...
...help avert the crisis of which Lopez Portillo spoke. Lopez Portillo asked for additional financial support, investment subject to Mexico's laws and special trade concessions; but behind all this was a request for a more sensitive and responsible approach to the relationship. The United States should not dismiss Mexico's problems as a matter of domestic concern. There is an interdependence, even if it is more like a dependent interdependence...
...Deed. The Black Muslim religion strongly appealed to some blacks because of its denunciation of the evils of white society and its promise of a better life for individuals who strictly follow its commands. The Hanafis consider themselves more orthodox than the Black Muslims, now called Bilalians, whom they dismiss as political exploiters. The most famous Hanafi convert is Los Angeles Laker Basketball Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who financed the purchase of a Washington house as Hanafi headquarters...
...clearly Haines' primary target, Wilson hardly escapes the fusillade. He comes across as soft, henpecked and, above all, a fellow who couldn't stand to see a woman cry and would do anything that would end one of Marcia's dreaded, tearful tantrums. Haines hastens to dismiss any suggestion that Williams' hold over Wilson was the result of romance. "I never saw the slightest sign of affection between them," he insists. Rather, he says, Wilson's acquiescence was based on his recognition of a political intelligence equal and, in Haines' view, perhaps superior...
...attempted to undermine a Massachusetts statute that protects the right of "female employees" to opt for unemployment rather than work between midnight and six in the morning. The Harvard lawyer argued that the statute is discriminatory, which indeed it is. Yet Harvard's contention that the MESD should therefore dismiss the statute as unconstitutional, when no state or federal law court has handed down a decision on the matter, overlooks the genuine human problems that caused the women to refuse the "graveyard shift" jobs...