Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...That Congress may require 10% of the money spent on a federally funded public works program to go only to contracting firms controlled by members of racial and ethnic minority groups. The vote: 6 to 3. > That judges must open all criminal trials to the press and public, except under special circumstances, such as when public attendance might jeopardize the fairness of the trial. This was the high court's first assertion of a constitutional basis for the press's "right of access" to important public information. The vote...
...nation. Since the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that a woman has a constitutional right to an abortion, at least in the early stages of pregnancy, the battle has come to focus on the question of whether federal and state governments have an obligation under the Medicaid program to pay for abortions performed on women who are too poor to pay. (The cost of the operation averages about $200.) In 1977 the court decided that there was no constitutional obligation if there was no compelling medical reason for the operation...
...admissions to the medical school of the University of California at Davis, but said that race could be an element in the university's admissions policy. In last year's Weber de -cision, the court upheld a quota in a private company's employee training program. Left unresolved, however, was the fundamental constitutional question: Does the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment flatly prohibit government affirmative-action programs? In last week's case, six Justices said no. They upheld a 1977 congressional law that specified that out of $4 billion that...
...majority decision will cause I no immediate changes, since it I chiefly permits the continuation of I a Government policy, and since ! nearly all the $4 billion authorized under the public works program in question has long since been spent...
Hanoi apparently acted also to show its anger over the U.N. repatriation effort. Viet Nam has charged that the program was a plot to strengthen the Khmer Rouge resistance. In the single week that it had been in operation, 8,700 Khmers had returned to Cambodia. Pol Pot's rebel forces somehow managed to survive Cambodia's dry season against overwhelming Vietnamese armor and airpower. Now that the monsoon rains have arrived, the Khmer Rouge's clandestine radio has announced plans to step up the guerrilla war against the 200,000-man Vietnamese army occupying the country...