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Black women have been and remain the most economically vulnerable group, and have benefitted least from Great Society evangelism which focused mainly on expanding opportunities for black men. The assumption was that increasing benefits for the black man's opportunities would somehow trickle over to the black woman, but no...

Author: By Michel D. Mcqueen, | Title: Myths and Movement | 2/21/1979 | See Source »

Graham last December filed a similar bill with the state legislature, but it did not include overall vacancy rate provision.

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: Committee May Sanction Rent Hikes in Cambridge | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

The case is based on an Indiana criminal code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pinto Ruling | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

At Monday's council meeting, though, Preusser claimed the provision allowing Harvard to intervene is unconstitutional because it decreases the voting power of other Cambridge residents.

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An Adversary Relationship | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

The few short streets still show the mildly abraded middle-class homes of the past 90 years. The one long block of South Hudson Street still shows black hovels in what seems permanently frozen collapse. No sign of pork-barrel public works or decor (beyond merciful provision for human excretion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Strong Old Rhythms of Plains | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

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