Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eleanor Holmes Norton, chairman of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, hailed the court's refusal to hear the AT&T case and strongly defended her agency's commitment to numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women. Said Norton: "We will not stop using them unless the court tells us directly to stop...
...nine Justices began their summer recess, lawyers and officials were left to ponder the meaning of the delicately balanced Bakke decision, which decreed that race may be an element in university admissions but not on a basis of numerical quotas-unless a previous history of discrimination is involved. Most university officials regarded that as an endorsement of the affirmative-action programs they already use, but in other fields, there was considerable confusion...
...Unless you're the only pro game in town or unless your city is populated in the multi-millions, the average ticket price is $7 and season ticket cost of $350 has priced it self out of reach of a large segment of fans. This is not necessarily the fault of the owners, players, cities, but rather it's all part of the American system of free enterprise...
...that; even so it is difficult not so sound like (God forbid) Eric Severeid. It is the general, but by no means pervasive, comfort of America today that makes the '70s so inert and dangerous. But every intelligent person clucks over the headlines each day and then forgets them, unless they directly affect him or her. And no one does anything. Despite the claims to the contrary, progress is not forthcoming...
...earned the right to slaughter and mutilate, while another part is willing to justify in a way all excesses. To justify himself, each relies on the other's crime. But that is a casuistry of blood, and it strikes me that an intellectual cannot become involved in it, unless he takes up arms himself...