Word: gutting
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...Frescoes from the Past," in Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain. For reasons nobody knows, Twain decided not to include this as a chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gutlaughter and gut-fear. One thing's for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
...fact is that many alleged "reforms" of rent control do not recognize or address this problem. Instead, they are attempts to gut rent control in the name of reforming it. Councilor Walsh's proposal (The Crimson, October 18), is a glaring example. While questioning what kinds of tenants by income or occupational status should be protected and targetting less than half of presently controlled units to poverty level tenants though vacancy decontrol, the Walsh package misconstrues the intent of rent control, and tosses yet another red herring in the path of real needed reform. Under the Walsh plan, the approximatley...
...that role Tisch is sure to be forceful. He is, as one CBS board member puts it, "a tough, gut fighter who wants his way." One of the first things Tisch wanted was the resignation of CBS News Division President Van Gordon Sauter, 51, a close ally of Wyman's who had drawn increasing criticism within CBS for eroding his division's cherished autonomy and injecting too much show biz into the news. According to one network insider, Paley and Tisch ousted Sauter without conferring with the board of directors' management committee, a move that irked members of that group...
...tremendous and historic victory for civil rights," exulted Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "The Supreme Court has repudiated the Meese-Reynolds attempt to gut affirmative action." | Justice officials refused to accept defeat. Meese blithely dismissed the opinions as mere pinpricks upon his policy, insisting, "The court has accepted the general position of this Administration that racial preferences are not a good thing to have. What they have done is carve out various exceptions to that general rule, even while affirming the rule itself." The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, William Bradford Reynolds...
Despite the continuing battle over affirmative action, many if not most big businesses have opposed the Administration's efforts to gut existing programs. Some employers, however, have undeniably seized on the Reaganauts' rhetoric to - go slow on affirmative action. "I think that businesses that didn't want to do anything could use the conservative climate as an excuse," said N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks last week. "But now they have no excuse for not going forward...