Word: mississippi
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Theories about political influence are not always tidy, however. Within the White House, James Baker, a Texan, is as important as any of the aides. Reagan's total Cabinet tilts, 8 to 5, east of the Mississippi River. Mike Deaver, who is Baker's deputy and a Californian, contends that the Reagan White House cannot be measured so much for its West Coast flavor as for the taste of Ronald Reagan. With the departure of Haig, those men closest to Reagan all have a special loyalty to him and fit his style...
...momentous moment, a big day for the N.A.A.C.P.," said General Counsel Thomas Atkins last Friday. From the buzzing crowd, a woman shouted, "Well, tell us! Don't keep us in suspense." Atkins then announced that the U.S. Supreme Court had unanimously reversed the decision of a Mississippi court, which had assessed the N.A.A.C.P. more than $1.25 million in damages for supporting a 1966 boycott by blacks of discriminatory merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. Jubilant delegates burst into old freedom songs and danced in the aisles in a 30-minute display reminiscent of the civil rights rallies...
...that seniority systems are immune to suits under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act will probably not guarantee a Women's Legal Defense Fund testimonial. But her majority decision, handed down last Thursday, that an all-woman nursing school in Mississippi was guilty of sex discrimination is sure to rekindle a few low-burning fires in the feminist camp. O'Connor even added a kind of bonus in her written decision, when she pointed out that such segregation by sex only succeeds in reinforcing the stereotype of nursing as a woman's profession. For all the sense...
...weeks. It was very likely the last real alternative to having no budget at all. This fear of total failure-and of continued castigation by Reagan as the cause of all economic woes-was the key to the congressional vote. "The members perceived that this could be it," said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "There was a feeling that we had to pass a budget today." Added Liberal Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts: "We were more scared of looking like we were in disarray than anything else...
...situations in the vernacular and not the Latin. A sense of excellence, of self-satisfaction, and of confidence, dominate the reminiscences from this year in Lant's book: "Freshman year I was thrown among brilliant strangers," John D. Spooner '59 writes. "General Motors Scholars, National Merit Scholars from Nebraska, Mississippi Pennsylvania, California, New Jersy and Texas...all public school boys. They were all brilliant, but they felt instinctively that they were special and had special things waiting for them in life...