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Conservative courts are beginning to roll back affirmative methods to obtain diversity in higher education resulting in falling minority applications and admissions to schools in California and Texas--the states where the rulings have come down. (Please see accompanying graphics...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The good times continue to roll, and Americans are proving that they believe it: consumer confidence in the economy has reached its highest level in 28 years. With stock markets surging to record levels, with both unemployment and inflation low, the Conference Board reported that the consumer confidence index rose to 127.1 in May. It was the highest rating since the index stood at 131.7 in August 1969. Because consumer spending accounts for nearly two-thirds of the nation's economic activity, the reports sent the Dow down in early trading on fears that the news meant...
After the Hill, a Washington newspaper, detailed Burton's many contributions from Sikh groups in the U.S., the Congressman returned $646 in donations that had come directly from religious organizations in violation of campaign finance laws. Then Roll Call, a Capitol biweekly, uncovered Burton's efforts to win concessions from the Education Department on behalf of a campaign contributor who runs a medical school in the Caribbean. And last week the Hill detailed Burton's sporadic history of praising Zaire's Mobutu after receiving contributions and honoraria from Mobutu's Washington lobbyist. The report caused Burton to return...
...ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES...
Perhaps it's appropriate that the volunteer summit in Philadelphia [BUSINESS, May 5] took place at the same time that Grand Forks, N.D., was experiencing severe flood damage. The roll-up-your-sleeves, let's-get-moving attitude of the volunteers who helped the people of Grand Forks has made it very apparent that private, voluntary efforts can work infinitely more wonders than any government bureaucracy is ever capable of. STEPHEN V. GILMORE Charlotte...