Word: harshe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next director will inherit an organization of over 400,000 members with considerable prestige among blacks and whites alike, but with harsh problems-including continuing failure to recruit younger staff members, worsening black unemployment and the loss of the Civil Rights impetus of the '60s. As a result of Wilkins' blast, the next director may also have inherited a tarnished public relations image. That is a problem the N.A.A.C.P., thanks largely to Wilkins, has not had for years...
Unlike the bloody riots in Soweto, which were touched off by compulsory teaching in the Afrikaans language in schools, last week's violence was provoked largely by harsh police tactics, including firing pointblank into crowds. Soweto itself was largely quiet, although trains, taxis and buses taking black workers to and from Johannesburg were occasionally stoned. To avoid further trouble, schools in the township were shut down until July...
Still, few men take as harsh a view of medicine as Ivan Illich, 51, a Viennese-born priest who now makes his home in Cuernavaca. Mexico. An iconoclast who has already attacked another major institution in his 1971 diatribe Deschooling Society, Illich zeroes in on the health industry in his newest attack and leaves no doubt as to how he regards the target. "The medical establishment," he writes in Medical Nemesis opening sentence, "has become a major threat to health...
...most of the past year, Mrs. Gandhi has been busy at home enforcing harsh measures to justify the state of emergency she declared last June. That she felt free enough now to make her trip to Moscow, her first overseas journey since the emergency began, is an indication that India is in many respects in surprisingly robust economic health. Thanks to a record wheat harvest of 114 million tons last year-which in turn was produced by the most beneficent monsoon in modern history-the country is enjoying a period of rare prosperity. As a result of a two-year...
...county and city governments have wide authority to fire their employees without first granting due process protections of specific charges and hearings. Government workers, wrote Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority, have no property interest in their jobs unless state law specifically so provides. "We must accept the harsh fact that numerous individual mistakes are inevitable in the day-to-day administration of our affairs...