Word: hook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means over, however. In a number of areas-New Jersey, for example-similar suits have been filed in state courts charging that restrictive zoning rules violate provisions of state constitutions. Nor did the Supreme Court let Arlington Heights -and other white middle-class enclaves -off the hook altogether. The Justices sent the case back to the court of appeals to consider another claim: that the refusal to rezone violated the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968. For some reason the court of appeals had ignored this charge, and that, said Justice Powell sternly, was "somewhat unorthodox...
Heavy Traffic. Last week two more accidents occurred. Another Liberian tanker, the Daphne, ran aground off Puerto Rico and still another, the Olympic Games, grounded and suffered a hull puncture during a docking maneuver at Marcus Hook, Pa. Moving downstream in a slick 32 miles long, its cargo seeped into marshes, coating wintering waterfowl with a sticky layer of oil that matted their feathers and robbed them of their insulating properties. Tens of thousands of birds were endangered...
...companies with less than 100 employees or $100,000 in contracts (versus 50 employees and $50,000 in contracts) are exempted from filing written AA plans. In addition, any employer receiving less that $10 million in contracts is also exempted from a prior review. This measure lets off the hook all but a half a dozen universities in the country. The campaign against AA, the call for drastic reductions in minority and women recruitment and admissions, the discrediting and weakening of Third World Studies, the growing repression and attacks in Third World communities are all linked in the current thrust...
...National University in 1960, he led a bloody student uprising that helped bring about the downfall of Dictator Syngman Rhee. A year later he was recruited by the KCIA. Assigned to Washington in 1970, he quickly became the South Korean embassy's expert-in-residence on how to hook a Congressman...
...Parent-Child Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes: "We've become a very materialistic and success-oriented society that is tremendously influenced by mass communication, particularly TV. The effect on children is to indulge them into thinking they can do anything?but that, by hook or by crook, they need to have money to be successful. We're talking about a nation at high risk to having a gambling problem; it is a nation susceptible to gambling...