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ABLE President Lisa Chetkov '85 says that some faculty members still resist moving their classic or allotting the extra time to accomodate the needs of disabled students, adding. "A lot of the problems are attitudinal, not physical, barriers." And Randolph agrees that the University should play a more active role to sensitize the community to the needs of disabled students...
California Senator Alan Cranston, a contender for next year's Democratic presidential nomination, said he too would resist the offer partly on practical grounds. You're apt to be caught," he said, "aside from it being morally wrong...
...million vehicles annually? Japan's unilateral promise, which is now in its third year, expires at the end of March 1984. Japan agreed to the restriction only under pressure; now that car sales for Detroit are picking up (12.6% ahead of a year ago), it was expected to resist another extension of the agreement. At a Tokyo breakfast meeting last week with Japanese industrial leaders, Sosuke Uno, the newly appointed Minister of International Trade and Industry, suggested that Japan might not enter into a new agreement after the current one terminates nine months from...
Moreover, Greenspan, like Volcker, is expected to be independent of the White House, which might want the chairman to do its bidding until the presidential election is over. Both would resist pressures to politicize the Federal Reserve...
Already the separatists who resist accepting English have won laws and court cases mandating provision of social services, some government instructions, even election ballots in Spanish. The legitimizing effect of these decisions can be seen in the proliferation of billboards, roadside signs and other public communications posted in Spanish. Acknowledges Professor Ramon Ruiz of the University of California at San Diego: "The separatism question is with us already." The most portentous evidence is in the classrooms. Like its political cousins, equal opportunity and social justice, bilingual education is a catchall term that means what the speaker wishes it to mean...