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Eight years later, Nixon, as President, beefed up the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which, along with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has become one of the government's two main enforcers of affirmative-action policy. It oversees 225,000 companies, with a combined work force of 28 million, that do business with the Federal Government. In 1971 Nixon's Labor Department started the Philadelphia Plan, a quota system & that required federal contractors in Philadelphia, and later Washington, to employ a fixed number of minorities...
Hardly the stuff of command councils or the KGB, Clark's letter reads more like the windy babble of a high school principal. (Only an administrator would employ circumlocutory phrases like "failed to exhibit.") Most people would have appreciated the warning, but not the CCR. The mere prospect that its members would be held accountable for their actions was enough to send everyone into a frightened panic...
...sounded great. The Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes, in their New World Order Jam, showed a large Sanders Theater crowd why they are the best co-ed a capella group on campus. A mix of polished vocals, lively choreography and outrageous humor left the audience of groupies speechless, forcing them to employ animal howls, grunts and shrieks to express their wholehearted approval...
...Harvard to emerge victorious today, it will have to continue the solid defensive play that kept the team in the Princeton and Brown games. The Minutemen employ a frenzied, run-and-gun offense that depends heavily on the attackmen and thrives off unsettled situations...
...however, accomplished somewhat the same purpose unilaterally. Backed by Britain and France, it warned Saddam not to use either fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters north of the 36th parallel, with the implicit threat that if he did they would be shot down, and not to employ armed forces of any kind to interfere with relief work anywhere in Iraq. The less than 10% of Iraq that lies north of the parallel takes in all the areas where the Kurdish refugees are now concentrated. So Washington's action in effect establishes most of northern Iraq as a safe haven in which...