Word: following
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only problem with Clark's pick was that it left distinctive marks, which enabled the FBI to follow his trail. His downfall came when he stayed too long in a residence in Buena Park, Calif. The feds caught up with him there last week and arrested him. They also confiscated his wondrous tool, and are hoping that he has not let anyone else in on his lucrative secret...
...essential that we do better," he says. Most other publishers agree. Nearly 100 news organizations were represented at the N.A.B.J. job fair, where a blizzard of minority resumes were traded. But for skeptics who have seen it all before, the proof is not in the prospecting but in the follow-up. Says Monte Trammer, the first black publisher of New York's Saratoga Springs Saratogian: "Affirmative action appears to be an area where whites are rewarded for intent and effort rather than results...
Harvard may follow a relatively democratic admissions policy, but students found that democracy fails to extend far beyond their acceptance letter. Once here, students are confronted with a web of prep school ties and exclusive social clubs...
...Charles Royer conceded last year, "It became clear that while we have some people who are hurting, there are some who are hurting us." The city passed an ordinance last fall making "aggressive begging" punishable by as much as 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Minneapolis lawmakers followed suit in February, ruling that no person shall "grab, follow, or engage in conduct which reasonably tends to arouse alarm or anger in others." Portland has also passed a "pedestrian-interference" law. Some officials admit that the ordinances are hard to enforce but are useful as a threat. Says Seattle...
...success of perestroika. It may be, as the dissident writer Vladimir Bukovsky suggests, that the only way for the Soviets ultimately to salvage their bankrupt system is by neutralizing Europe and harnessing its energy, technology and vast wealth -- not by occupation but by the domination that would follow a detachment of Europe from...