Word: outlaw
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...resultant six-week investigation by Rep. James. G. O'Hara's (D.-Mich.) Special House Subcommittee on Education--the first such review by the legislative branch--apparently will issue in legislation to outlaw such programs. The rationale of the committee's majority here, it seems, is that minority hiring "goals" are the same as "quotas," which are the same as "reverse discrimination," which is something the government should not be "bankrolling...
Harrison said that O'Hara, convinced by the testimony of college administrators and educational lobbyists that HEW's voluntary hiring-goal program is "subterfuge," will try to rewrite the 1965 Higher Education Act when Congress reconvenes so as to outlaw such "reverse discrimination...
Greetings to Peter Fonda, the old Easy Rider himself, who has slipped back into the driver's seat. This time around, he has four wheels instead of two and plays a heist artist with racing ambitions instead of a romantic outlaw biker. Fonda has dreams of glory on the fast track. To get himself a stake in the big time, he knocks over a large super market in a small California town...
...regard the amphibian gourmands with the equanimity of Queenslanders, who have grown used to skidding in their cars along toad-covered roads. The cane toad, said one member of the Northern Territory Legislative Council, is "loathsome and repulsive," and the council rushed through a bill anathematizing it as "an outlaw ... a pest to be destroyed on sight...
This, of course, is good news for businessmen. For example, John Anselmi's Outlaw Inn motel has enjoyed a 99% occupancy rate for 18 months, and Anselmi has sold 400 mobile homes (average price: $14,000) at his Wheel Estates showroom in the past year...