Word: utah
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Whatever the arguments, affirmative action is the law-or rather, a whole series of laws. Today overlapping state and federal agencies enforce reams of regulations, leading to complaints of wasteful paper work, unrealistic guidelines and interminable delay. The overall expense of affirmative action is incalculable. The University of Utah, for example, estimates its annual cost of maintaining compliance records at $100,000 a year. Yet enforcement is mostly a matter of exhortations or threats. Although the Office of Federal Contract Compliance says it has helped discrimination victims collect $159 million in back pay, only 15 of 30,000 businesses dealing...
...graduate young leaders like the Kennedys and the Udalls on the left. But there is a different breed of conservative coming on the scene now." These include Laxalt, 55, and Viguerie, 44, and a group of aggressive Republicans: Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, 43, Illinois Congressman Phil Crane, 46, and California State Senator Bill Richardson...
...because it was found on an official's desk in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The will contains misspellings and references totally atypical of Hughes. It also leaves one-sixteenth of Hughes' money to a former Utah gas-station operator, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have picked up Hughes in the desert and driven him back to Las Vegas-and Dummar has since admitted that his story was false. Even so, Hughes' old estranged lieutenant, Noah Dietrich, who is named in the will as executor...
...discussion with two members of the Kennedy administration about their highly-touted "limited war" policy in Vietnam. Foreseeing the tragic consequences of a war that the American public and government would inevitably expand instead of limit, Reisman asked the two presidential advisers if they had ever been to Utah. When they said no, he replied, "You all think you can manage limited wars and that you're dealing with an elite society which is just waiting for your leadership...It's not an Eastern elite society run for Harvard and the Council for Foreign Relations...
With the governmental failures of the past 15 years clearly in mind, President Bok has been trying for the past several years to get public servants from Utah, and several other parts of the globe, to Cambridge so they will learn to avoid their predecessors' pitfalls. Since he first publicly articulated that ambition in his 1973-1974 annual report, one of the keystones of Bok's administration has been the upgrading of the Kennedy School of Government. Bok hopes to turn the Kennedy School into a peerless professional school that will train people for major governmental posts, offer sabbaticals...