Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group that felt cheated in a state-delegation selection process: the burden of proof would have been on the accuser who charged that the state party had not honestly tak en affirmative action. Some blacks, whose position was supported by the women's caucus, threatened to walk out of the convention if the rule was not changed to make challenge easier. After some tense bargaining and caucusing, it was changed to tighten the monitoring of affirmative action and remove the burden of proof...
...this Assembly in particular, can walk one of two paths," Scali said. "The Assembly can seek to represent the views of the numerical majority of the day, or it can try to act as a spokesman of a more general global opinion. To do the first is easy. To do the second is infinitely more difficult. But if we look ahead, it is infinitely more useful. The most meaningful test of whether the Assembly has succeeded in this task is not whether a majority can be mobilized behind any single draft resolution, but whether those states whose cooperation is vital...
...century paintings of Indian ceremonies and battles, color photographs of Indian lands, tools and dwellings. Nearly 600 different tribes (from Abenaki to Zuni) settled in the U.S. and Canada, and the book more or less manages to do justice to this diversity. The general effect is like a slow walk through a large, well-stocked museum...
...taking a walk...Strauss has spoken. We will say this to Strauss--that union labor will no longer suffer sophisticated denial and discrimination in the high councils of the Democratic party. We would remind Mr. Strauss that union labor is an indispensible element of the coalition to which he will turn...
Alas, a full hour of Misch doesn't go by untainted. Here and there he slips up and tries to sneak in an old Jack Carter re-tread like "I was once so poor I used to walk into a restaurant and play for an omelette--what a tough crowd that was." Misch was fortunate enough this night to have a shill blurt out a well-timed "If you're funny enough--any egg will crack up," to obscure the dreaded silence. But he'd do best to refrain from the clinkers and stick with his own fresh material...