Word: minorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legacy of a history of devoting virtually no resources to the education of roughly 80 per cent of the population of that beleagured country. I therefore place particular importance on the remark I made earlier on the importance of training and the development of skills which will make admittedly minor contributions to a very sad situation; but it seems to me and has seemed to others to be at least some movement in the right direction...
Daley took Byrne into city hall, at first giving her a minor poverty program post. But when he made her part of his cabinet as commissioner of consumer sales in 1968, she found a natural niche. Even in a city noted for its corruption, she was outraged by evidence of wrongdoing. She scolded butchers who peddled poor meat as high-grade cuts and auto repairmen who faked car ailments. But sometimes she went too far. In 1976, when she complained about the "disheveled appearance" of the city's cabbies and ordered them to wear uniforms, they just laughed...
...addition, K&E got the right to put some of its employees on Chrysler's planning and marketing committees-an unusual coup for an ad agency. Except for some relatively minor scraps, K&E will handle all of Chrysler's advertising, a departure from the usual auto industry practice of having different agencies for different product lines. Says Kelmenson: "It's my dream of total involvement...
Chung's bill, which came up before the joint Health Care Committee last week, seeks to codify the mature minor rule. The Supreme Judicial Court defined a mature minor as one who is capable of giving informed consent (to an operation or medication...
After some preliminary digging, Chung discovered a little-known ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Baird versus Belotti in January 1977. The court ruled that, in all cases except abortion, a "mature minor" may receive confidential medical treatment where it is in his/her best interest not to notify the parents...