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...partial changing of the guard comes at a time when the Court has already made some alarming about faces regarding previous rulings. East year, in the Grove City case, the Court sided with the Reagan Administration in its reinterpretation of Title IX of the Civil Right Act. The 1983 ruling decreed that only specific departments in colleges or universities discriminating on grounds of sex should lose federal funds, not the entire instillation. In what many consider to be a stinging below to affirmative action, the Court ruled in Memphis vs. Stotts that seniority look precedence over minority hiring when that...
...exaggerations, oversimplifications and outright misstatements on both sides deserve greater attention. Some of the errors might make a concerned voter shudder, since they involve the gravest issues of national policy. A partial list, beginning with the President, whose mistakes were the more numerous...
...Atlantic Cable Company arranged for the transmission of 10 free telegrams between Washington D.C. and Greenwich, England for astronomical reports, but attained only partial success...
...accord ended a precarious situation that had bankers and politicians in both Washington and Buenos Aires holding their breath whenever interest payments came due. For months Argentine Economy Minister Bernardo Grinspun has been shuttling between New York City, Washington and Buenos Aires. Default was avoided twice this year by partial payments or assistance from Argentina's Latin American neighbors. Meanwhile, the country's economy kept deteriorating. Inflation reached an annual rate of 1,200%, and labor unions were pressing for ever higher wages...
...workers. By no coincidence those plants turn out nearly half of GM's total production, including such hot-selling models as the Pontiac Fiero and Buick Century. But as the selective strike continued last week, more and more workers began to feel the impact of the partial walkout. At its peak, the strike affected 40 plants and 110,000 workers, one-third of GM's blue-collar work force...