Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over to fill Prentice's Education portfolio. As one Labor M.P. observed, it was "a classic Wilsonian reshuffle: no inspiration, all tactics, every move a tortuously devised counterpiece...
...hiring, more than admissions--but they crystallized many of the arguments brought against it. The reverse discrimination DeFunis cited is an idea that comes up again and again in criticisms of affirmative action, the popular image being one of women and minorities hired not for their qualifications but to fill government quotas. "Reverse discrimination is a bunch of malarkey," Leonard says. "There's no such thing. It's a myth, a red herring...
...search to fill the vacant mastership positions of Lowell, North, and South Houses this year was a thorn in the side of President...
What to do with it all? AID officials will divert some of the goods to nations that the U.S. is still assisting, not to expand programs but to fill existing commitments. Foodstuffs, mainly rice, wheat and corn, will go primarily to Bangladesh, India and perhaps Egypt. But industrial goods pose a much tougher problem. They were intended for the sophisticated economic base that the U.S. wanted to build in South Viet Nam until the very end. (The Mayaguez, for instance, was unloading 3,000 tons of industrial goods-just what is still not clear-when it hastily had to leave...
What is interesting is the freak show, the long line of grumpy midgets, washed-out showmen, and childishly cruel, empty-headed blondes seeking to fill the vacuity of their existence with rich and "devilishly" handsome men. The performances in the film are on the whole superb. Burgess Meredith is excellent as Harry, Faye's father, who has come to Los Angeles after a long career on the vaudeville circuit, now reduced to selling bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death...