Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California's tax-relief measure will ultimately fail-not because of the quality of the idea itself, but because the original opponents of the measure are now the ones asked to implement it. Essential, rather than nonessential services will be the first to be cut and the I-told-you-soers will soon begin their chorus...
...first significant federal effort to outlaw employment discrimination in private industry. Title VI of this law barred discrimination in federally funded universities and other programs, and Title VII barred it in jobs. Using what courts have called color-blind language, the act made it unlawful for any employer "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise to discriminate ... because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin...
...inherently difficult issues. I don't fear a rebuff or a defeat so much that I am afraid to try. It would have been a devastating blow to me politically and to my image as a leader had the Senate rejected the Panama Canal treaties. [Now] if we fail, I will not regret having tried...
...stores where there is anything to buy. The Russians also have a reputation for showing ill-disguised contempt toward Cuba's large black and mulatto population. At a May 5 town meeting in Spokane, Wash., President Carter commented that Soviet adventurism in Africa is doomed to fail because of the Russians' "innate racism." Says one Cuban pointedly: "I object to Carter's use of the word 'innate...
...Egyptian President's reaction to the Israeli vote was publicly mild. "If the peace initiative should fail," he said, "it will not be the end of the world. There will be a new approach." Privately, he has taken comfort from the amount of opposition in Israel to Begin's stand, particularly Weizman's strong reaction. Sadat has threatened in the past to let the Sinai disengagement agreement lapse in October, when it comes up for renewal, if the impasse has not been broken by then. But what he really hopes is that the U.S. will become what...