Word: lubbock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dual System. Last week's decision ended a long and hard-fought case against the Teamsters and T.I.M.E.-DC, Inc., a trucking company based in Lubbock, Texas, which the Government accused of discriminating against blacks and Hispanics in deciding who would get over-the-road driving jobs. As recently as 1971, only 13 of the company's 1,828 over-the-road drivers were members of minorities. Like almost all trucking companies, T.I.M.E.-DC had two seniority systems, one for over-the-road drivers, the other for workers in more menial jobs. If a warehouse cargo loader became...
Noel Wiggins Lubbock, Texas...
...William C. Jamison of Lubbock, Texas, a salesman with a financial-records firm, reckoned that Carter would get "a real feel for the country just by dropping in unannounced everywhere you go. This will enable you to see the country as it really is. Otherwise it will...
...South's many paradoxes that violence is not far from the surface. Montgomery, Ala., Lubbock, Texas, and Savannah, Ga., have the three highest murder rates in the nation, in part because of the gun-toting tradition and a sense that honor dictates that real or imagined wrongs must be redressed. But up North, the combined rate of violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery) is still greater than that of the South. Almost everywhere, people can walk the Dixie streets without having to fear muggings or purse snatchings...
They call themselves messengers, and they like to denounce the wicked world with the rhetoric of doom. "We are suffering from the corrosive breath of materialism, secularism, commercialism and godlessness," cries the Rev. Jaroy Weber of Lubbock, Texas, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and this leads to "hunger, inflation, credibility gaps, loose morals, bad government, divorce, drunkenness." But as some 16,000 Southern Baptist messengers gather this week in Norfolk for the 119th convention of the largest Protestant group in the U.S., their spirits are as ebullient as their slogan: LET THE CHURCH STAND UP. As keynote speaker...