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...course, Dole did not go along, and the whole story was exposed and made public, but the Morris incident is a window to the inner workings of politics in Washington. It seems as though tunnel vision on the part of politicians hurts the American people in the long run because it necessitates third-railing. The federal budget negotiations were third-railed and resulted in an impasse. Schools all over the country floundered to make crucial staff decisions without knowing how much money they would receive from Uncle Sam. Result: contingency layoffs, and the impasse had even more far-reaching results...
Speaking from a couch in the inner ring of the common room, Hoyte opened the program with a speech focusing on affirmative action at the University...
...moving the bus stop to a safer spot on the mall's perimeter. But a former owner of a shoe store at the Galleria came forward to say that in his lease negotiations with the mall, a Pyramid official had assured him that "you'll never see an inner-city bus on the mall premises." Henry Louis Taylor, a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, calls this "sanitized, guiltless racism." According to Warren Galloway, head of Buffalo's Operation PUSH, "It is a kind of racism that is often played out in battles between cities...
...cruelest injustice, however, involves public transportation--because jobs in Erie County, as elsewhere around the country, have been migrating to the suburbs, where they often become inaccessible to inner-city blacks. Several new industrial parks north of Buffalo, for example, have roads that are too narrow and have no turnaround room for the cumbersome buses that ply big city routes. Kenneth Cowdery, who runs a job-training center in Buffalo, says he saw more than 100 jobs go unfilled last year because his mostly black clients couldn't find a way to get to work...
...advantage of a virtual affair is that it shifts the emphasis in a relationship from outward appearances to inner thoughts and feelings. Result: a quick and intense intimacy. That tends to make women happy. "It forces men to do something they don't normally engage in: communication," says psychologist Al Cooper of the San Jose Marital and Sexuality Centre. "You have to communicate...