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...after the decision, the Justice Department began to apply the court's interpretation to all laws prohibiting discrimination by recipients of federal funds. Thus protections under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a 1973 law forbidding discrimination against the disabled, and 1975 legislation against age discrimination were dismantled at one stroke...
Harvard sports legend George Owen, Jr. '23, a member of both the college football and pro hockey Halls of Fame, died of a stroke Tuesday in Milton, Mass...
...target of their wrath is Keith Rupert Murdoch, 54, the proprietor of Wapping and one of the world's most powerful press barons. Murdoch has acted audaciously in the past, but never before has he accomplished so much in a single bold stroke. For 50 years Fleet Street's print unions have exercised a viselike control over the national newspaper industry, blocking the introduction of new technology and shutting down the presses at will. Murdoch broke that costly stranglehold in one weekend last month. He abruptly fired nearly 6,000 striking printers and moved his London papers...
Even with the boost from interest rates, the economy would remain a bit lackluster in 1986 if it were not for a lightning stroke of good fortune in the energy market. Since November the global oil-price war started by Saudi Arabia has sent crude prices sliding by about 50%. That decline will be responsible for about a third of this year's growth in GNP and will help control inflation. Said Walter Heller, chief economic adviser in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: "The luck of the Irish is working overtime. Now Ronald Reagan can sing, 'Almost everything's going...
...Christensen suffered a second stroke Monday night and was rushed to the intensive care unit where he was down-graded to critical...