Word: minority
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Less than a year ago, Linda Chavez, 38, was the relatively unknown staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, a bipartisan federal advisory panel. But Chavez, a Hispanic American and onetime union lobbyist, transformed the minor post into a bully pulpit to express her strongly conservative views against racial quotas, busing and comparable worth. Her outspokenness won the attention of influential Republicans, and last spring President Reagan made Chavez the highest-ranking woman in the White House when he appointed her to head the Office of Public Liaison, the principal link between the Administration and interest groups...
Foreign aid would also go up, by $1.3 billion, or 9%. Otherwise, the budget proposes only a handful of minor spending increases: an additional $16.9 million for drug-law enforcement, for example...
Second Period--5, NU, Marge Sanford (unassisted) 11:33. Penalties--Tamara McLaughlin, NU (tripping) 7:22; Johanna Neilson, H (hooking) 9:01; Lisi Bailliere, H (illegal checking) 13:16; Bench minor, H, 13:16; Chris Fitzgerald, NU (delay of game...
Still, there is also a considerable amount of caring, concern, and positive action on the part of many Leverett residents directly resulting from the grate incident. Also, I in no way view the issue as "silly" or minor...
...detente during Gerald Ford's Administration, a brief hope that space could become a bridge rather than a barrier between the superpowers. In 1975 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft linked in a display of heavenly symbolism. But such episodes proved to be merely minor exceptions to the rule that space was inevitably where the superpowers would extend their rivalry...