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...real roadblocks to voter registration have always been more serious, many affecting specifically minorities. Some of these are rapidly crumbling. The Dudley Station registration table could, for example, not have been set up in the 1979 mayoral election, because the city refused to certify several registration sites in the poorer areas of town. A suit by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights was what changed that for good...
...says, "madness. They believed in public ownership of everything. They wanted to eliminate all private workers. In all China there were only 150,000 private workers. They wanted the barbershops, the bathhouses, the shoemaking shops all to be state enterprises. The poorer the people, was their theory, the more 'revolutionary' they would become. We found we had 26 million people
...narrow approach may have hurt it by focusing only on business rather than including non-profit concerns as well. More telling, though, is the criticism that Harvard did not make strong enough efforts to publicize the program either inside or outside the University--dooming it, perhaps, to poorer enrollments and a lower reputation among such programs than it deserved...
...shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between men's approval of Reagan and women's is a startling 21 percentage points. Pollsters, politicians and academicians attribute that gap to several factors: women's increasing sense of being economically...
...government has called the games "a dangerous diversion" for young people and for those with modest incomes. Frequent players, who can hope to win illegal jackpots of more than $2,500, include immigrant workers from Algeria or Portugal and residents of the poorer sections of France's major cities. Most of those people have no wish to break their habit, which costs many $15 a day or more. Says one jackpot junkie: "You'd better believe I like playing. You don't need friends, and you don't have to worry about being lied...