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On the way to passage, some House Democrats sought to turn the legislation into a March Christmas tree. The House Appropriations Committee, while drafting the bill, tacked on a $110 million assortment of mass-transit projects for committee members' districts that gave Republicans plenty to complain about. "This bill...
Civil rights leaders contend that the latter provision is discriminatory because Blacks generally score lower on such standardized tests than whites. The Southern Digest, February 11
The House of Representatives approved a bill last Wednesday that would allocate $1 billion over the next five years to improving math and science teaching in the public schools through grants to states and local school districts. Though the measure is stopgap in itself, its strength lies in a provision...
Testifying before the U.S. District Court in Providence, on February 1. Brown professor Rudolf Winkes charged that Dean of Faculty Maurice Glickman violated the equal pay provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act by intentionally awarding a higher salary to a female art professor of equal status.
Ford's publishers spent more than ten times as much on legal costs as they will recoup from the $12,500 award for damages. The sum that they were granted represents the fee that was lost when TIME, which had purchased first magazine publication rights, withdrew under a contractual...