Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasonably orderly withdrawal turned into a rout." Hundreds of fighter planes were left behind intact on regional airfields, and masses of valuable equipment ? essential if the government ever hoped to mount an effective counterattack ? were abandoned...
...ACCOUNT which suggests that student activism followed well defined patterns over the course of 338 years, Lipset is faced with the problem of explaining why in 1969 undergraduate radicalism was able to mount such a stunning attack on the University itself. He resolves the problem with two devices--one historical and one psychological. In his chapter on "The Protest of the Thirties" he argues that Depression-era radical students failed to mobilize mass support among their peers because "the University did not present them with any issue of repression," the sort of issue around which students at other campuses were...
...unable to mount any greater threat in the doubles, as the Crimson teams of Ingard-Hyde, Waldman-Reiner, and Sandy Wilson-Karl Kravitz all cruised to victory to round out the scoring...
That strategy will no longer work in one state. The New Jersey Supreme Court last week banned restrictive zoning throughout the state. The ruling resulted from a suit brought by the N.A.A.C.P., CORE and nine individuals against the town of Mount Laurel, N.J., a well-to-do suburb of Philadelphia. The plaintiffs had argued that the state constitution guarantees all citizens equal protection under law, but that some people, specifically Mount Laurel's 20,000 residents, were more protected than others. The opposition did not deny that the zoning was restrictive but insisted that remedy should come through legislation...
Going even further, the court demanded that the towns devise land plans that will attract families of all social and economic levels. Though Mount Laurel will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, most experts feel that the justices will not consider the case because it is based exclusively on New Jersey law. The precedent it sets, however, is likely to influence other suits against restrictive zoning in states across the land...