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...tenure. Under the new ruling, universities may sexually discriminate so long as it is not in a program receiving any federal aid. This could lead to among other things, unequal treatment of women in hiring decisions, class selection, where limited, and athletics. Whereas previously Title IX insured the equal funding of both men's and women's sports, women's groups and civil liberties organizations are now predicting the revised law will lead to the demise of women's athletics. The ruling should hit women athletes especially hard in large universities that do not always share the Ivy League...
...past, the threat of a termination in federal funds was government's most potent weapon with which to whip discriminatory institutions into line. Now, with all the teeth taken out of the ruling and the absence of an Equal Rights Amendment, women have virtually no recourse to legal protection during their years of education, having to rely instead, as one activist put it, "on good will rather than...
...getting funds, and it varies from zealous to non existent," says Koocher, adding that the involved parents tend to come from the upper-middle-class neighborhoods, where families are more education minded. "Our highest priority for the future should be seeing that all kids in the city get equal resources," Koocher says. Koocher has accused Lannon of catering only to certain influential parents...
...years. The. President has used a similar metaphor. In a speech unveiling his economic program soon after he took office, Reagan dramatized his concern about the national debt, then approaching $1 trillion, by noting that it would take a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high to equal that total. When he brought out his new budget this month, Reagan failed to mention that his deficits would push the debt to $ 1.8 trillion by next year and raise his stack of $ 1,000 bills to more than 120 miles...
Just how great became more evident after the war. By sheer persistence, De Gaulle won France a mostly undeserved role as an equal to Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union in tidying up Europe after...