Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farm Workers' Theater) begins. It does not simply point out evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make noise." Like Valdez...
...Strike Forces. Clark insists that electronic eavesdropping is costly, unnecessary, and no substitute for resourceful detective work. He argues that its main value is to get at the leaders of the syndicates, whose organizations will flourish even if they go to prison. Rather than assigning up to six men to tap one of the bosses' phones round the clock, Clark prefers to send his men into the field to crack down on the sources of rackets revenue at the local level...
...experience. Successful blacks have gone into law, medicine, religion. Without much exposure to business, a young Negro is often inadequately trained in the fundamentals that whites take for granted, including bookkeeping. When he ventures into enterprise, he runs into a financial community that often rejects him for reasons that strike him as strange: a shortage of collateral, a dim credit history, a lack of precise records...
...issue of conflict of interest is as old as business, yet it has never been quite so urgent or confusing. It was brought to a boil by the still continuing Texas Gulf Sulphur case, involving stock purchases by company officers who had confidential information of a Canadian mineral strike, and by last month's charge by the Securities and Exchange Commission that 14 executives and salesmen of Merrill Lynch had illegally fed "inside" information to mutual funds and other institutional investors. The two cases have inspired a run of stockholder suits and general jitters among corporate insiders. One measure...
...legislation is immediately effective, without any review or approval by the Administration. However, if the College Council or Administration voices any objection, the matter is placed before the Review Board, composed of nine members, five of whom are students. The Review Board can strike down RUS legislation, and the College Council still reserves ultimate veto power...