Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year later, Barre's approach has produced only the most modest successes. The annual rate of inflation in August dropped to 6.2%, the lowest since January, and unemployment figures for September, released last week, showed a slight decline. The nation's trade deficit will probably be reduced this year to around $3 billion, from $4 billion in 1976, and the franc has stabilized at about 4.86 to the dollar. On the other hand, output of goods and services is likely to grow only 3%, v. an original forecast from Barre...
Indeed, most black leaders feel that affirmative action has only begun to generate significant change. In 1950, 2% of the nation's doctors were black, and this percentage remains unchanged. Similarly, blacks still make up only 3.4% of the nation's lawyers and only 1% of its engineers. And now that most organizations finally accept at least the idea of affirmative action, the limited gains have strengthened demands for outright quotas for the benefit of minorities. That is far more controversial, particularly among Jews, who remember the all too recent days of quotas that excluded them from graduate...
Harvard Law Professor Archibald Cox, representing the University of California: There are three facts, realities, which I think must control the decision of this court. The first is that the number of qualified applicants for the nation's professional schools is vastly greater than the number of places available...
...second fact: for generations, racial discrimination in the U.S. isolated certain minorities [and] condemned them to inferior education. And then there is one third fact: there is no racially blind method of selection which will enroll today more than a trickle of minority students in the nation's colleges and professions...
...will the Supreme Court finally rule on the Bakke case? Nobody can predict the result with any certainty, of course, but many of the nation's legal scholars expect the decision to go against Bakke. A sampling...