Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey City...
...farmworkers' struggle is not confined to grapes or to California. After California there are Yuma lemons, Texas melons, Florida sugar, and Michigan and New Jersey truck farms. "In our struggle, we never really lose," says Cesar Chavez. "We have our unity, our solidarity, our spirit...
...water. The Government voiced deep suspicion that major companies are not producing as much natural gas as they could from beneath the Gulf of Mexico, and a federal judge issued an order that will in effect forestall drilling for oil off the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey...
...catch phrase in public education. Described by educators as a "man on the street" effort to halt the devaluation of a high school diploma, minimal competency requires students to pass proficiency exams, in addition to course work, in order to graduate. So far, six states -California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington-have enacted minimal competency laws. Florida has also outlawed traditional "social passing," by which illiterate students eventually graduated after merely attending school enough years. In ten more states, boards of education have decreed minimal competency on their own authority, and boards of over a dozen states...
...Jersey Businessman, age 42: I want to be dressed as a baby...