Word: mayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dudley route passes through streets lined with small merchants, one-room boutiques as well as cuchifrito parlors, whose size may spell chic to the shopper but struggle to the owners. If you're on the bus you can pick and choose from the multitude of storefronts, but behind each is an owner who spends six or seven days a week there, 52 weeks a year. Often the owners are the shop's only employees, working 12 hours a day and worrying the rest. In spite of their labor, roughly a third of these small proprietorships go bankrupt within a year...
...disdain for equitable taxes. Asked what he thought of the American income tax system, Long replied: "I think it is progressive to the point of being counter-productive." He prefers emulation Louis XIV by extracting onerous "taillies" from lower and middle income people. The VAT's hidden character may seem appealing to politicians, but its regressive nature will certainly prove costly to most Americans...
William J. Skocpol, associate professor of Physics and a Faculty Council member, said yesterday Rosovsky's steps are "useful, but may not be adequate" to increase significantly the rate of affirmative action recruitment...
Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and Faculty Council member, said yesterday Rosovsky's new approach may "force departments to think more about the availability of women" when they select the fields in which they plan to grant tenure posts...
...financial incentives for minority hiring have "dangerous implications. Skocpol said, adding it may look as though women and minorities hired under such a program "were marked...