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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although his parents were poorly educated immigrants who spoke only Yiddish at home, Asar Stepak, 28, worked hard to learn English, and earned a 3.5 grade average at New York University. He applied for admission to the Rutgers College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. After Rutgers turned him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Bakke Bottleneck | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

At a Kaiser Aluminum plant in Gramercy, La., the company and the employees' union, the United Steel workers of America, agreed that half of those admitted to a craft job-training program would be minorities; separate seniority lists for minorities and whites were drawn up to screen program applicants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Bakke Bottleneck | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

Much the same thing happened to James Cramer, a sociologist at the Georgetown University Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure. Cramer was hired for a one-year teaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and promised that he would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Bakke Bottleneck | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

In June of 1974 the Louis Neal family was driving near Las Vegas when one of their car's Firestone 500 steel-belted radial tires blew, causing the car to go out of control and crash. Mother and father were killed, and one child was crippled. Five surviving children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Uneasy Riders | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

But the public debate is far from over. Every Friday in the mosques, the imams (preachers) bemoan the immorality of working women. A few months ago, the ulema pressured the government into circulating a letter to private companies asking them not to hire women. On the other hand, two Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: The Desert Superstate | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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