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...School Admissions Test (LSAT), to be administered in its new form for the first time in June, has been revised to predict more closely how a student will perform in law school, but an official at the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) said Thursday the alterations were not made specifically to counter charges of cultural bias in the test...
...still difficult to predict who will receive the convention's non-binding endorsement in two weeks, but all sides agree it will come down to Lakian and Robinson. Lakian, who has no political experience and to playing up his "untainted" image, has been organizing for these years...
...communications giant to offer any services it chooses to whomever it wants. With its substantial capital, its Western Electric manufacturing partner and they amazingly resourceful Bell Laboratories, which may be the best research institution of its kind in the world. AT&T is now free to lead what experts predict will be a revolution in communications technology...
...both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, argues that the Administration's deficit spree might induce such tight money that it would abort any recovery. Heller wants to shrink the deficit mainly by raising taxes in 1983, a step that could batter the economy even lower. Some conservative economists predict that the result of the red ink will be higher interest rates. Says Burton Malkiel, an adviser to Gerald Ford and now dean of the Yale School of Organization and Management: "You have a $100 billion deficit running smack against a tight rein that the Federal Reserve has held...
...states like Maryland and Virginia, where busing has been widespread, officials predict the legislation could promote re-segregation. On the local front, if expected challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation fall short, the impact of Helms' initiative could be even more stark. More than half of the 35,000 Boston students who are currently bused to school ride more than 15 minutes--raising the spectre that Boston would have to retrench dramatically on its widespread desegregation plans...