Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Insurance Development Corporation that would end "redlining" practices, by which insurance companies refuse to insure homes and businesses in potential ghetto riot areas. As well, he requested $1 billion for model cities, a threefold increase over last year, and passage of the Administration's oft-requested fair-housing law. All told, the multifaceted program would cost taxpayers $2.4 billion for the first year...
...tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect for law...
Private Sessions. That does not seem to bother the four Merseysiders and their ladies-the three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week...
...tons of garbage on the streets, offended the nation's nostrils-and was quickly followed by another strike of trash haulers in Memphis, Tenn. Detroit's summer epidemic of "blue flu," in which 700 policemen reported sick, deprived that city of 30% of its on-duty law-enforcement force. A 1967 walkout of firemen in Youngstown, Ohio, emptied all but one of 15 fire stations. In fact, Ohio, which has a tough law calling for the firing of every public employee who goes on strike, has had at least 30 strikes-involving police, nurses, city service employees, teachers...
...upwards of 250. Dr. Sam M. Lambert, executive secretary of the National Education Association, which represents one million teachers and administrators, has predicted 250 strikes by teachers alone next year. Says Pennsylvania University Industry Professor George W. Taylor, principal source of New York State's public-employee labor law: "It's going to be a mess for generations...