Word: local
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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...
...Brown's two-room concrete house, students delivered water from local springs or rain tanks. She used a kerosene lamp and stove for light and cooking. It was "just a house and that's it," she says...
...People were still dancing around with painted up faces, dressed in animal skins" on occassions of special ceremonies, Brown recalls. "Even though these are people who go to school...they still maintain a lot of local culture," Brown says...
These Californians may never get to see the two most important urban phenomena, yellow snow and grey snow, or have the somewhat dubious honor of having local brats chuck iceballs at their head...
...Cambridge, some experts have already pinpointed prime candidates for trimming. Former Nixon adviser and Lee Professor of Economics Hendrik S. Houthakker, for one, says high spending for agricultural programs and grants to state and local government could be reduced, creating a windfall to finance the deficit...