Word: redrawn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, applying the Nixon alternatives would often require some increase in the number of children bused to school. Attendance lines have been redrawn annually in Manhattan, for example, but because the white public school population borough-wide is so low, next year all but one of its eight academic high schools will have 80% or higher nonwhite enrollments. Some 35 U.S. cities are setting up or planning magnet schools by building educational parks, large central campuses to which all of a district's pupils would travel, many by bus. John Ito, civil rights adviser to Los Angeles County schools...
...turning to employee profit-sharing plans as a more rational way to spread good fortune around. But 1971 was not a particularly cheery profit year, and workers whose bonuses are tied to corporate earnings may find it a cruel Yule instead. At General Motors the bonus schedule has been redrawn to exclude employees earning less than $24,000, instead of $15,000 as in 1969. Last year, no bonuses were paid because of the lengthy United Auto Workers strike. One survey of 524 New York City area firms showed that not quite 37% will grant holiday payments this year...
...reduced the hopes for a relaxation of tensions in Central Europe. It also acts as a barrier to convening the Soviet-sponsored Conference on European Security that Moscow would like to hold as a means of gaining full Western acceptance of Eastern Europe's present borders, which were redrawn by the victorious Soviet army during World War II. The Western nations refuse to attend until there is a solution to West Berlin. Despite mounting frustration, neither side has shown any inclination to break off the talks...
Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who gave Goodell little support during the campaign, won handily over former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg-and "Dump Johnson" architect, Rep. Allard Lowenstein, lost in a district that has been redrawn since his election two years...
...that, the gubernatorial stakes are unusually high in 1970. Governors will be in control as congressional districts are redrawn to conform with the 1970 census data. Thus a big Reagan win in California could translate into as many as ten more Republicans in the House of Representatives when the nation's most populous state is redistricted; a victory in fast-growing Florida is worth perhaps three congressional seats to the party incumbent in Tallahassee next year...