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...from that of the district as a whole. Bakalis asked each of the state's school districts to report to him the racial composition of its schools and found that 21 of the districts did not comply with his guidelines. For those districts he has provided a manual outlining various methods of desegregation, such as school pairings and pupil reassignments. If the districts do not soon come up with satisfactory plans, Bakalis has threatened them with court action. One of these areas is Chicago, where 501 of the city's 656 schools fail to meet the Bakalis standard...
...flesh on the bones of Cubist structure, to give it the sensuousness of the world of objects, returning to the eye and hand a space which, though fictional, can be explored in real detail. "There is in na ture," he said later, "a tactile, I almost mean 'manual' space." The Mantel piece, 1922, is an example of this pro cess. At first one recognizes its elements - the crumpled guitar, the bottle, the grapes, the brown veined marble of the consoles and mantel top - as signs that "stand for" real things. But the painting, as always in Braque...
Criminals are dealt with so lightly here that one New York accountant was moved to remark, "You get one hanging judge down here and that will clear up the problem." Hardly, but then a good police force might. Since most native islanders opt for bureaucratic jobs rather than manual labor (that is done largely by "bonded" blacks from other islands), virtually every criminal seems to have a relative in a government job who will work to prevent him from being found out, arrested or held for any length of time...
After Becks' decision, the agency finally turned over to the Longs a manual that guides IRS agents in negotiating settlements with taxpayers. But it is still reluctant to make public a statistical study of audits, and it may appeal the part of Beeks' decision that requires...
...Raytheon ads stated that the company's Amana air conditioner "takes only minutes to go from carton to cooling." The only evidence it gave the FTC was a copy of the installation manual and an admission that the length of time it would take to put in the air conditioner could "vary from person to person...