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According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
...death knell had sounded. I turned to leave in despair when a sign before my eyes proclaimed "March Is Nutrition Month...
...1950s were "painful" and "complicated" for Blacks in America, as were the 1940s, the 1930s and every preceding decade. But Jim Crow and segregation weren't invented in the 1950s--indeed, the 1950s sounded the death knell for government-sanctioned discrimination in the United States...
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...