Word: knell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the new limitations, the death knell has not yet sounded for affirmative action. Last week's decision did not affect plans by private companies to increase minority hiring, nor did it nullify the Federal Government's set-aside program. Some experts, moreover, feel that local governments may be able to document past inequities in a way that would satisfy the court. Says Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense Fund: "The evidence of discrimination necessary to justify affirmative action on behalf of minority businesses exists...
WITH that promise, the death knell sounded for the trade bill. The Democratic leadership was unable to win the necessary two-thirds majority in the Senate to override the forthcoming Presidential veto. But whether or not another trade bill is passed, the veto could turn out to be a hidden blessing for the Democrats...
...Kalb, who called the Iowa caucus a "glorious example of American democracy," said that he thought yesterday's results might have sounded the death knell for several candidates in both parties...
...strong) followed suit. An estimated 90% of the 5,600 delegates to a Washington convention of Kiwanis International roared the needed two-thirds approval that abolished the traditional men-only rule. The Kiwanians, said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, had sounded the "death knell for male-only economic organizations." Now, she went on, feminists can target all-male "dinosaurs such as the Cosmos Club ((in Washington)) and the Bohemian Club ((in San Francisco...
Perle's resignation came just as the U.S. unveiled its verification scheme at the INF talks. Some critics see the strict provisions as a major impediment to quick negotiation or perhaps even the death knell for an INF agreement. Perle shares none of this skepticism. He is confident, he said, that the "U.S. is on the verge of a breakthrough . . . which will for the first time eliminate an entire category of weapons...