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...currently a manager of the Nolan, Norton and Company international information technology consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass...
...help make her plan work, Blum enlisted the aid of her friend Jay Weinberg, 66, a former cancer patient and owner of an Avis car-rental franchise. Unfortunately, corporate sponsors were initially slow to sign up. The turning point came in January 1983, when David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon, was forced to cancel a corporate flight that was to carry a cancer patient to the West Coast. As a consolation, Mahoney wrote a letter to 1,500 leading American companies, urging them to help CAN. In response, 100 firms signed up. Today more than 270 firms participate...
...American black family. The report is still persuasive, yet the touchy issues it raised were until recently judged almost unfit for public debate. Now, however, the precariousness of so many black families has become a central concern of black leaders. Unstable and ill-formed families are, says Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, "a threat to the future of black people without equal." Last week a national black sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, held the first of 43 local conferences it has planned on the subject. At Nashville's Fisk University, about 200 scholars...
...nearly three times as high as among white men, and black family incomes are, on the average, 56% of white family incomes. It is hard to keep any family together under such financial pressures. Fathers, feeling defeated and useless, drift away. "The strong growth in female-headed households," says Norton, a law professor at Georgetown University, "is the central problem in black families and why poverty is so lasting." Teen-age mothers too often produce children who become teen-age mothers. Says John Bayne, a Washington social services official: "It is harder to break the cycle for kids who have...
...only workable means of redressing past discrimination in a timely manner. To assert, as the Reagan Administration implicitly does, that the United States has arrived at such a harmoniously just state that continued remedial action is no longer necessary would be laughable were it not so sinister. As Norton states. "The fact is that the new equality in American life is a function of the new remedies." Take away the remedies, prematurely, and persistent racial and sexual discrimination--now, under heavy assault--will enjoy a renaissance...