Word: mering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John F. Kennedy was the first President to call for "affirmative steps," in Executive Order 10925, issued in 1961. With that measure barring job discrimination among contractors doing business with the Federal Government, Kennedy recognized that desegregation would take more than the mere absence of overt bias among contractors. So Washington told contractors on federal projects actively to recruit minorities and encourage their promotion...
...emerged from a Soviet jail, Crawford's eyes brimmed with tears, and his voice cracked as he faced newsmen and insisted: "I am innocent of all charges." If so, Crawford, and the American reporters, seem to be mere citizen pawns caught in the Kremlin's power plays...
...Angeles (3%), landlords can pick and choose among tenants. Increasingly, the choice is "adults only." Such restrictions suit older couples who have raised their children, like quiet and do not want to trip over roller skates on the landing, as well as many singles who feel the mere presence of children will cramp their swinging lifestyle. The policy also makes economic sense to landlords for whom tenants' children can create maintenance problems. But what are young parents to do? Says Dora Ashford, director of the Los Angeles Fair Housing for Children Coalition: "People with children are a desperate class...
...morality that prevails in the academy. Contrast the silence about the genocide in Cambodia and about repression in Cuba and Viet Nam with the stormy agitation about South Korea or South Africa. Solzhenitsyn is right in decrying our failure of nerve. He is saying that any society that makes mere survival the be-all and end-all of life will sacrifice everything that makes life worth living. He is warning us that whoever values comfort, property or security above freedom when it is threatened will lose not only their freedom but their comfort, property and security...
...there was speculation among some of his advisers on how the address would be interpreted in the press. One suggested a pool on the subject, which led another to propose, jokingly, that the official getting the most credit should then resign. In the end, the address went through a mere three drafts compared with six or seven versions for previous important speeches Carter has made...