Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitalize on changing white attitudes, the San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council decided last spring to invite blacks to shop for homes in the valley. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation and local real estate people, the council launched a $92,000 publicity campaign, distributing glossy brochures in the wealthier Los Angeles subdivisions where black professionals tend to cluster. The brochures showed blacks playing tennis on valley courts and partying on the sundecks of $60,000 ranch homes. Black radio stations broadcast a jingle urging Los Angeles listeners to "Move on in, move on into the valley...
...factor in giving up the canal. To be sure, the U.S. acquired the canal territory in a grandly imperialistic manner in 1903, and the waterway remains one of the last, most prominent vestiges of the colonial era. As Senator S.I. Hayakawa put it, not altogether whimsically, "We stole it fair and square." But it can be argued that ever since the canal was opened for business in 1914, the U.S. has more than made up for its initial land grab. It has managed the canal in an openhanded manner, allowing access to all the world's shipping, including that...
Massachusetts Fair Share is providing very persistent in its efforts to keep the issue to Harvard's payments to the City of Boston before the public...
This week, the group opened a whole new line of attack. With the aid of Boston City Council President Joseph M. Tierney, Fair Share put a resolution on the council's agenda asking Harvard to boost its payment to the level the citizens' group has suggested...
...surprise inside the album is a fold-out photo of Olivia on a couch, staring wistfully into the camera with those same green eyes that adorn the front cover. For any other artist it wouldn't be fair to dwell on the nature of the record cover, but Olivia is a special case. There are no credits for any of the musicians and singers who back up Olivia on the 12 selections. But that doesn't mean that no one else besides Olivia gets recognition. Au contraire. The four credits on the cover mention her make-up person, her hair...