Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Council will hold a hearing April 30 to hear taxi drivers' complaints about a plan, recently approved by the city licensing commission, that would allow cab companies to lease taxis to drivers...
...members of the Harvard golf team awoke yesterday morning to hear the presistent patter of rain drops percolating down their windowpanes. It was with inutterable sadness that the Crimson linksters returned to their anonymous beds assured that their opening day match against Tufts and Amherst would have to await a more clement...
...Brian Weber, 32, a man who says he wants nothing more than to be a general repairman at a Louisiana chemical factory. But to many people Weber personifies the sticky question of reverse discrimination. He had come to the unfamiliar setting of the nation's high court to hear oral arguments in a case, Kaiser Aluminum vs. Weber, that will make his name as well known as Allan Bakke's. In Bakke the court outlawed explicit racial quotas for admission to universities receiving public funds; Weber tackles the more far-reaching issue of racial preference in employment...
...Wednesday night it should all be over. A weary Rogers will hear last appeals. The next morning he will get on the telephone and start apologizing to certain loyal alumni whose children have been rejected. "It's an exciting time," he says, working up a smile. It is an expression familiar to anyone who has watched baseball managers approaching the cutoff date, politicians on the stump and admissions directors in the spring...
...short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it, we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, buy it lunch. But we seem to have less in common these days. It is a bit of an embarrassment. The short story is earnest and intense as always. It is hard to tell it that movies are more fun. And there are other reasons for unease: the short story is a financial failure and its domestic life is a mess. Most of the old mass magazines that once made room...