Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last Resort. In search of a permanent solution, Carey and Rohatyn journeyed to Washington again to lobby for help from Congress. At their request. Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin scheduled hearings before his Senate banking committee this week on an array of bills to aid the city. Because of overwhelming congressional opposition to a direct subsidy, most attention has focused on one proposal that would authorize federal guarantees of state securities designed to help finance local governments. The proposed legislation would make the guarantees available only as a last resort...
...Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
Edison will resort to the only argument that it's difficult to believe that the courts may buy, that the city won't be receiving its fair share of taxes if the private hospitals are allowed to build their power plant. But a $1.5 million in-lieu of tax agreement pending between the city and the medical institutions will probably nullify Edison's claim...
...understand how Jews have gotten to the point of supporting a situation which is prejudicial to Jewish interests, we have to resort for a moment to the history of the Jews at American universities. Fortunately, Professor Seymour Martin Lipset has done a study on the subject of Jewish academics, which was published in the American Jewish Year Book of 1971. In it we read, and I quote, "Important private universities had quotas as limiting the number of Jewish undergraduates until the end of World War II and relatively few Jews were able to secure employment on the faculty of these...
...boycott seems to lose momentum, the McCauleys worry that truancy charges may be brought against the children. "We feel like there's a gun in our back," protests Mrs. McCauley. They say they would never resort to violence to block busing. But, predicts McCauley, "after the Guard leaves, all hell is going to break loose...