Word: pennsylvania
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...racial discrimination and threatens ,to withhold $20 million in federal funds. In North Carolina, division between black and white colleges persists; the state is reluctant to abandon some traditionally black colleges that want to maintain their identity. Those who fear Caesar can also point to the case of Pennsylvania's Grove City College, a small, religiously oriented school that, on principle, has never taken a penny in federal aid. The Government sent Grove City a letter calling it a "recipient" of federal aid, and requested school officials to sign a paper assuring the school's compliance with provisions of Title...
...investigators continued their post-mortem on the Pennsylvania accident, an advisory panel recommended installation of expensive new monitoring instruments at all 43 of the U.S.'s pressurized-water reactors?the type in use at Three Mile Island. The NRC also heard a complaint from a nuclear analyst for the Tennessee Valley Authority that the reactor's builder, Babcock & Wilcox, had brushed off his warning of a "serious" design problem. Perhaps of greatest immediate import, officials conceded that it may take several more weeks, possibly months, to achieve a "cold shutdown" of the crippled reactor, meaning bringing it down...
...Boston, Brookline and Cambridge, Mass, and a number of small towns in New Jersey have enacted rent controls since the early 1970s. In the past twelve months, bills calling for some form of controls have been introduced in the state legislatures of New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Hawaii and Pennsylvania. A tenants' association in Miami Beach, where some rents have doubled in five years, is trying to bring back the controls that the city council voted out two years...
...characters, says Cimino, "are trying to support each other. They are not endorsing any thing except their common humanity -their common frailty, their need for each other." Although it may be reading the film too much as allegory, the ending, with the survivors back in their shab by Pennsylvania steel town, sitting around a table and softly singing God Bless Amer ica, has the effect of being an absolution, a subtle exoneration of the American role in Viet Nam. Cimino might have intended the scene more as an exoneration of the men who were called on to fight there than...
...oarsmen's time tied the course record set by Pennsylvania five years ago, but several rowers did not feel completely satisfied by the performance...