Word: generalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trotted Williams in front of reporters to announce a tangled compromise: pending a four-year review, federally aided colleges may set aside some scholarships for minority students only if the awards come from specially designated private donations or federal programs -- but not if the money comes from the institutions' general operating funds...
...President explained lamely that the new policy would "continue these minority scholarships as best we can." But civil rights advocates and educational professionals immediately cried foul. The latest policy twist, they charged, was administratively unworkable, legally shaky and likely to invite endless litigation. Moreover, by outlawing the use of general funds, the ruling placed the largest source of money for minority scholarships off limits. "On issues of race and sex discrimination, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan in sheep's clothing," fumed Ralph Neas, head of the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...
...Israelis appear surprisingly calm about the possibility of an Iraqi missile attack, it is largely owing to their faith in the air force, the elite military branch. Last week that trust was deeply shaken when air force Brigadier General Rami Dotan, former chief of logistics and Israel's leading expert on aircraft engines, started talking about his role in the biggest bribery scandal ever to rock the defense establishment...
...government says the money was siphoned from the hefty military aid that Washington gives Israel ($1.8 billion this year), and officials fear the scandal will further strain relations with the U.S. Others have called for air force chief Major General Avihu Bin-Nun's resignation. For now, that seems unlikely, especially given the gulf crisis. In an apologetic letter to his staff last week, Bin-Nun wrote, "I trusted Rami Dotan in exactly the same way that I would trust the aircraft technician from whom I receive a plane before a flight...
When bus drivers in Fez joined a nationwide general strike called by Morocco's two major labor unions earlier this month, government officials thought they had a simple remedy: they put soldiers and police officers behind the wheel...