Word: businger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The real fight will be for the three open seats. With only small differences, the likely winners will look very much like their fellow councilors. Michael McCormack and Bruce Bolling should win seats while anti-busing advocate Jim Kelly and Maura Hennigan will fight it out for the final spot...
Nowhere is the shift more apparent than in the field of civil rights. In briefs before the Supreme Court two weeks ago, Solicitor General Rex E. Lee startled the legal community by arguing that there was no "federal interest" in the questions of whether states can exclude the children of...
The Attorney General insists that he is still committed to enforcing civil rights laws and is only rejecting the traditional remedies of busing and quotas, which have become increasingly unpopular with the public. "Our goal is the same as our predecessors, to eliminate the vestiges of discrimination," says Smith. "We...
Education Week's first edition offered a splendid scoop: a series of excerpts from the 91-page secret memo written by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell telling how he plans to dismantle the Education Department and change the Government's role in education. Wolk's staff of...
What started the anticourt drive was conservative anger at federal court opinions that, among other things, legalized abortion, outlawed school prayer and supported the use of busing to achieve desegregation. Even before those rulings were handed down, conservative wrath had been aroused by the federal judiciary's strong protection...