Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state will not reckon with this when it distributes the funds." Civil rights, education and social service leaders are also wary of entrusting the purse strings to statehouses, and more than 60 citizens and religious groups have formed a coalition to oppose the President's plan. Says Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund: "We are really getting a return to the old states' rights philosophy that will make a mockery of our promise of equal opportunity...
Reagan flatly rejected it. House Majority Leader Jim Wright asked about a 5-5-5 plan. Reagan did not reply at all. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill grumpily dismissed the meeting as "a media event" and said of Reagan: "I felt he was setting...
Under the standard grievance procedure in such cases, Wright may choose one member of the three-member ad hoc committee that will hear her complaint. Dean Rosovsky and Huggins select the other two grievance committee members. When Wright tapped Southern, however, the executive committee rejected Southern as "inappropriate," and asked Wright to select someone else...
...committee's rejection of Southern, along with its refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file the complaint with the EEOC and to consider suing the university, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's attorney, said in April. He added that Wright would not alter her original choice of Southern to serve on the grievance committee...
...administration is putting on more pressure," one professor predicts. Another, who asked not to be identified, suggests that fears of a similar incident might have made the Psych and Soc Rel Department more sympathetic to Langer in its considerations this winter. And just months after Skocpol's complaint, Josephine Wright, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission charging the University with discrimination on the basis of sex and race in denying her a one-year contract extension. But Faculty remain nearly unanimous in agreeing that the threat of external suits--like...