Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battle is by no means over, of course. Last week when Congress reconvened, it began considering new antibusing measures, including a proposed constitutional amendment. The Supreme Court last year unanimously approved busing as one tool to end segregation. This October, in a busing case from Denver, it will consider whether the informal-or so-called de facto -school segregation common outside the South is as unconstitutional as the de jure segregation explicitly established in Southern states by law. The stalled rulings in the much publicized cases of Detroit and Richmond, involving busing across county lines between city and suburb...
...political arena...I'm not disturbed that you paint people in politics that way, but I think there may be a level beyond that, where a candidate may recognize the system cynically for what it is, but use it as a tool...
...average is composed of only 30 stocks; less-publicized indices measuring the performance of hundreds of issues have hit historic highs in the last few weeks. "Cyclical" stocks-shares in companies whose earnings typically rise and fall with the general economy-are improving. These include stocks of hotels, machine tool, auto and appliance firms. Moreover, the U.S. economy is now growing more rapidly and suffering less swift inflation than the economies of most other industrial nations. Though many Americans seem unaware of that fact, it has not been lost on foreign investors. Net foreign purchases of U.S. stocks during...
...often compared to Berkeley, Calif., as a center of "youth culture." But while young people have had a tremendous social impact on Cambridge, so far the city has effectively barred them from local voter rolls and prevented them from having much of an impact on city politics. While radicals tool over the city government of Berkeley two year ago, council elections in tradition-tied Cambridge last year produced only a shaky liberal majority in a City Council shared with ethnic and commercial interests...
...memorable-a rubber stamp for Marlon Brando's. But his name did not become a household word until last spring, when he posed in the hirsute buff for Cosmopolitan magazine. Now, unliberated housewives shamelessly tape Burt Reynolds' sinewy centerfold to their refrigerators the way their hubbies paper tool sheds with "Playmate" pullouts...