Word: rollback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reynolds, outraged minorities by breaking the Justice Department's long- standing alliance with civil rights organizations. The new appointee could help the G.O.P. lure nonwhite voters by reversing Reynolds' opposition to affirmative-action quotas. One key decision: whether the Administration should side with civil rights groups in opposing any rollback on discrimination suits brought under the Civil Rights Act of 1866 when the issue is argued before the Supreme Court next year...
Voters who approved a rollback in auto premiums may inspire a wider revolt. -- Why Ross Johnson' s overreaching grab for RJR Nabisco infuriates his board of directors...
Ever since it outlawed public school segregation in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court has been on the cutting edge of civil rights advances. Now, however, the Justices may be on the verge of a historic rollback. In an unusual move, the court last week considered whether to overturn its 1976 ruling in Runyon v. McCrary, a key civil rights decision. That possibility prompted a flood of briefs from Senators, Congressmen, state attorneys general and civil rights groups urging the court not to overrule Runyon...
However, education officials say they recognize that the question of government classification of some scientific research is unavoidable and they say the fight will go on. "I'm not certain that we're going to see a great rollback in secrecy restrictions," Shattuck said...
...past treaties. "We should not rush into signing an agreement with the Soviet Union," he declared, "until we force them to comply with previous agreements." While Kemp called for unrealistically stringent verification procedures, Robertson's conditions for signing an arms accord seemed even more fanciful: he glibly recommended "a rollback, a decolonization, if you will, of the Soviet empire." Du Pont was a bit more temperate. Though he said the INF deal was a "bad treaty," his main concern is to forestall Soviet attempts to block the Strategic Defense Initiative...