Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action officials saw this development as further support by the court for their efforts. In Portland, Ore., addressing an anxious convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hailed the court's refusal to hear the AT&T case and strongly defended her agency's commitment to numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women. Said Norton: "We will not stop using them unless the court tells us directly to stop...
...people of the Detroit factory suburb of Wayne, he was the messiah from California. They boosted Howard Jarvis last week onto the back of a blue pickup truck, handed him a microphone, and waited for him to say what they wanted to hear. He readily obliged: "We want a reduction in the taxes in this state and every state...
Still, the process of getting that information enjoys considerably less protection. In two cases, the court refused to hear challenges to court-imposed limits on what participants in a criminal trial could say to newsmen. In three others, it decided not to review orders to newsmen to reveal their sources in ordinary civil cases. Two weeks ago, the court denied special prison access to San Francisco TV station KQED, specifically telling the press that it had no more right of access than the general public...
...most pressing issue to face the court this term-affirmative action-the Justices followed up their divided Bakke ruling by refusing to hear a union challenge to a settlement between the Government and AT&T setting substantial goals for promoting women and minorities. The court also sent two other affirmative-action plans-struck down by lower courts-back for rehearing, one on procedural grounds, one "in light of" Bakke...
...three years and a million delays (because of legal problems) later, Springsteen's fourth album is here. Unfortunatley, the boy from Asbury Park seems to have lost something during those years, because Darkness on the Edge of Town is not really the album everyone has been wating to hear for so long...