Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great many others. In Greenville, Miss., where attitudes tend to be more extreme than in the upper South, most of the city's 10,124 students moved quietly into schools that had been desegregated through a pairing plan drawn up by a local biracial commission. At Macon, Ga., all but 2,000 of the system's 33,000 children showed up for the opening of classes in once segregated schools. And in Houston, blacks and whites went to school together-while Mexican Americans, who resented being classified as white instead of "brown," stayed out in protest...
...that Tom was able to run a cost-cutting program; describing the cost cuts that he had put into effect at his old company, Tom began talking confidently rather than querulously. Eventually, he found a job at a higher salary than the nearly $60,000 a year he had drawn from the company that fired...
...recovery of consumer confidence is nowhere in sight. Says George Allen, 53, a Seattle engineer on layoff from Boeing: "When I am back at work, I'll know that the economy has turned around. I can't tell it by looking at some chart someone has drawn...
...established a motion-picture company, W.R.G./Dragoti Ltd. Two films, Dirty Little Billy, a saga of Billy the Kid, and Spoiled Priests, about a Catholic priest who leaves his order, will go into production within the year. Most of the photographic, writing and editing talent for Billy will be drawn from the W.R.G. staff. Lois Holland Callaway's ventures are in keeping with the canny flamboyance of its president, George Lois. The three-year-old firm founded Mantle Men and Namath Girls, a glossy employment agency aimed at young job seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices...
...Asian dollar market is still too small to have caused U.S. officials headaches comparable to those created by the Eurodollar market. The latter has both drawn funds from and supplied money to the U.S. at times when Washington monetary authorities have found it highly inconvenient. In the U.S. there is some suspicion that many...