Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That will end what civil rights groups regard as a four-year hamstringing of enforcement of the laws barring discrimination on the basis of race, sex, age or handicap. In its 1984 Grove City College v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court ruled that those laws were not intended to apply to entire institutions that receive federal aid, such as colleges, hospitals and corporations, but only to particular programs. Thus a university laboratory that received federal research grants could not discriminate, but the same university's history department that got no cash from Washington could. Legislators howled that the court...
Together with Co-Author Dr. Robert Kolodny, who directed the research for Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (Grove Press), the first couple of sex treatment charge the government with "benevolent deception" in downplaying the extent and nature of the epidemic. Among their assertions...
...Grove City College decision, the Supreme Court held that federal law prohibited discrimination only in a specific university program or activity receiving federal aid, not in the entire institution. Last week the Senate sought to reverse Grove City by passing the Civil Rights Restoration Act, prohibiting discrimination throughout any school, church, synagogue or business that receives federal money...
...gradual descent back to Saigon's heat is broken by a pause in Bao Loc to buy the renowned local tea and an unscheduled pit stop in a teak grove. The van with the small U.S. flag on the windshield startles villagers and city folk alike. Americans are a rare species in Viet Nam, and most are mistakenly greeted in Russian by children and adults. But when the reply is "Nyet Lien- So, Mee" (Russian-Vietnamese pidgin for "Not Soviets, Americans"), Vietnamese, especially in the South, do happy double takes. This is in part due to an economy that once...
...areas can now purchase pet health insurance, starting at $44 a year for puppies. The plans do not cover such routine care as vaccinations or neutering, but they pay claims of up to $1,000 for fractures, cancer treatments and cardiac surgery. The Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. of Garden Grove, Calif., formed in 1982, currently boasts 50,000 policies in 27 states and expects to add 13 more states by mid-1988. Few people doubt that they will make their goal: medical costs for animals climbed 183% from 1981 to 1986, in contrast to only about 59% for their masters...