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...assume that Jackson cannot withstand such scrutiny. Certainly Jackson's maladroit stewardship of $5.6 million in federal grants and contracts awarded under the Carter Administration is a lingering embarrassment. Technically the money went to PUSH-Excel, an educational subsidiary of Jackson's Chicago antipoverty organization, Operation PUSH. From the outset, Jackson was the catalyst for the funding. Carter Cabinet officials such as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Joseph Califano and Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall courted Jackson and invited him to apply for grants. "These federal agencies came to Jesse and threw money at him and at PUSH," recalls...
...past six years, the Review--a prestigious journal run by Law School students--has had a standing policy of affirmative action for minorities, but not for women, said Review President Dan M. Kahan. He said women "weren't included at the outset, and they haven't been since...
Meet the latest innovation in network political coverage: the off-air reporter-producer and all-around campaign shadow. With no front runners and no bottomless buckets of money, the networks decided at the outset against deploying a correspondent and camera crew with each of the 13 candidates. But ABC and CBS still wanted a daily presence on the campaign bus. So each created high-tech updates of the newspaper cub reporter. Mostly less experienced, and therefore less expensive, the tyros have been assigned, in campaign parlance, to stick with the "body." From Iowa to New Hampshire and across the South...
...project would have lost its urgency. If he had finished the year with, say, $25,500, a respectable profit of more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious European banking family, which spells its name Rothschild and usually surmounts calamity...
...anxious and grieving Jansen on the starting line that evening. At the outset he jumped the gun. To avoid a repeat and disqualification, he held back for a crucial moment at the second gun, then bore down to make up for lost time. He went down suddenly in the first turn, clipping Japanese Skater Yasushi Kuroiwa and slamming into the sideboard. Looking back, he said that he might have been pushing too hard. It seemed as likely though that emotional pressure had made a difficult curve impossible...