Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Childless husband with infertile wife wants female donor for test-tube baby. Caucasian background. Indicate fee and age. All answers confidential...
...final analysis, this election has the potential for being the hottest senatorial race in the nation this year. Ravenel is hoping to inject dynamism into South Carolina politics--a force not present in decades. He faces a man representing the emotional, "gut" reactions that have withstood the test of several decades of politics. The clash is a significant one, for Ravenel is calling upon South Carolinians to question their automatic and often impulsive assumptions about the state and the nation...
...would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner agreed with Cramer. "You've been flattened by the civil rights steamroller," he said. After an unusual appeal hearing involving all the judges on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the court said that it would...
...issue has also arisen in Wyoming's Federal District Court. Wyoming's Associated General Contractors are suing the Economic Development Administration to test a U.S. law requiring that 10% of certain federal funds be set aside for minority-owned firms. Judge Ewing Kerr says that he will not reach a decision until the Bakke ruling is handed down...
Saturday's Preakness victory on Affirmed is further proof, as much as any single race can be, of Cauthen's claim to be on the select list. At 1 3/16miles, the Preakness provides an honest test of the three-year-old Thoroughbred and an intense examination of the rider. The shorter course (1/16 of a mile less than the Derby and 5/16 of a mile less than the Belmont Stakes) demands the hot speed that is the first hallmark of the breed. A topflight field hurtling around Pimlico's tight turns leaves no margin for error by a jockey: fail...