Word: straussed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immediate focus of the protests is a plan for restructuring the city council, put forward by Mayor Annette Strauss and the city council, that will be voted on in a special election this weekend. But black and Hispanic leaders say something more fundamental is also taking place. The civil rights movement that swept the South a generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back...
...Strauss concedes that minorities are underrepresented on the city council, which has eight members chosen from single-member districts and two others (plus the mayor) elected from the city at large. She and the council have proposed a system of ten single districts, with four other members to be picked from large areas of the city...
...have been accepted in large measure throughout the world. Twenty- six years ago, selling your jeans could land you in a Soviet prison. In May of this year, the Soviets put on a trade show in San Francisco to try to attract trading partners and investors like Levi Strauss...
Aikman jumped at the chance to interview Solzhenitsyn when the Soviet author sent word through his U.S. publisher, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, that he would be willing to talk to TIME. Says Aikman: "For any student of Russian thought and literature in the 20th century, Solzhenitsyn towers above the landscape. He has done more to influence Western views of the Soviet Union than possibly anyone else since the Bolshevik Revolution...
...Negotiations have been far from the classic situation," says Nona Strauss, a University negotiator on health care issues. "It wasn't the old smoke-filled room with the two sides arguing at a table," she says...