Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backtrack seriously on the gains made in civil rights." If implemented, the measure would not affect past desegregation orders, and it might not affect the 75 cases now pending. Furthermore, the rider would not stop busing suits; it would simply stop those filed by the Justice Department and hence shift the whole burden of initiating such actions to private groups. Since the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Justice Department has brought 200 busing suits, including some in large cities such as Houston and Kansas City, Kans. But the majority of explosive and significant cases-in Boston, Detroit...
...there are opportunities as well as sleeplessness and maverick guests on the lobster shift, and many veterans have graduated to higher things. John Chancellor was anchorman of Today before he joined NBC's Nightly News in 1970, and Barbara Walters had the same job before she jumped to ABC in 1976. As a reward for her a.m. heroics, Pauley already has been given the anchor of NBC's Sunday evening news, and Brokaw is a leading candidate to replace Chancellor when he leaves. Hartman is expected to ask for a chance to do more prime-time work when...
...Crimson defense buckled down to contain the aggressive B.U. offense for the next 25 minutes. Freshman Deb Taft played brilliantly on defense, consistently controlling the puck on her shift...
...first period Harvard looked nervous, not waking up until the second shift of each line. Before the skaters got untracked, B.U. captain Julie Devine jammed the puck past Yardling goalie Cheryl Tate...
...business slump and the rising popularity of gas-sipping models were more to blame. Said Commissioner Paula Stern, 35, a Carter appointee and former legislative aide in the Senate: "I have found that economic conditions-recession, the credit crunch, rising costs of car ownership-and a major, unprecedented shift in demand from large to small cars brought the domestic industry to its present weakened state...