Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voting Rights Act. Reagan says he expects to support a full extension of this important civil rights law with only minor modifications. Some Southerners had urged that a provision of the law that forces Deep South states to obtain Justice Department approval for any change in election laws be applied nationwide. Reagan originally supported the idea, but says he is now convinced it would make the law too cumbersome to enforce...
...meantime, the man who had become Minister of Immigrant Absorption, Aharon Abuhatzeira, was facing charges of theft, fraud and violation of public trust, allegedly committed, while he served as mayor of Ramie, near Tel Aviv, in the 1970s. Any of these relatively minor political difficulties within Begin's fragile coalition could be sufficient, in the end, to jolt him from power...
...Something of a minor miracle," said Michael Evans, a Washington, D.C., economist. "Fiscal graffiti" and "a huge disaster" were the capsule descriptions offered by Economist Joseph Pechman of the Brookings Institution. Both men were referring to congressional approval last week of the Reagan-endorsed tax bill. Reaction to the program ranged from sheer delight to unspeakable horror; business leaders were generally pleased, while angry labor chieftains charged that the program was a giveaway to the rich...
...commissioner of the City of London police, who shared responsibility for the massive security arrangements, issued a statement saying simply: "We hoped for a happy day to mark an historic occasion. Our wildest hopes have been exceeded." Total arrests for the wedding day: ten, all for such minor offenses as pickpocketing or indecent assault. Along the length of the processional route, the rudest sign that greeted the royals was HI, MUM-which could have been, given the circumstances and the spelling, either a message directed via TV toward home or a chummy salute to the Queen Mother...
...business proposals. Last year 145 new companies were started with venture capital, 53% more than in 1979. By year's end, according to Stanley Pratt, editor of Venture Capital Journal, these companies will have poured a record $1.1 billion into infant businesses. Says Pratt: "This is still a minor blip in the capital structure of this country, but it is a critical amount for the American economy...