Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feels life in his home town closing in on him, swallowing him up the way the mines have swallowed his father, he cuts out. He leaves for Boston, where the last letter received from his veteran brother was postmarked. Hunter, who has already lost one son to the tide of history, figures there is only one things to do--follow Hobie, and bring him back. Failing that, to find...
...though the Burger Court is widely regarded as conservative, the general tide of relevant court opinions runs against Bakke. The court has tended to take a flexible view of the equal-protection clause, recognizing that extraordinary steps must occasionally be taken to enforce the basic point of the 14th Amendment: protecting blacks. Even racial quotas have sometimes been authorized to remedy proven discrimination...
Restic is not too concerned that late fumbles will turn the tide in today's skirmish, though...
That stemmed the tide-but only briefly. Then, after Nashua and Ricoh officials held a meeting, Nashua announced that it did not expect an interruption in the shipments of the Japanese machines. Some traders interpreted this as a sign that there were uncertainties about deliveries-else why would there have been a meeting?-and still more selling hit Nashua and Savin...
...black politicians and spokesmen for civil rights groups have stressed the crucial symbolic impact of the ruling, predicting that, subtleties aside, ruling against U.C. Davis would be seen as a ruling against affirmative action, and that it could mark the first victory in a campaign to turn back the tide of affirmative action and the progress of civil rights programs and legislation by those who now think minorities have gained too much, too fast in the past decade...