Word: serious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavy-handed solution. It sacrifices the principle that a free, educated community can and should direct itself toward its own ideals--gradually if need be--for the illusion that tolerance can be manufactured virtually overnight, externally. For the sake of the symbolism of total randomization, it also sweeps aside serious problems with that plan...
Assistant Dean for Minority and Race Relations Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, with whom Lucas initially discussed the incident, said. "The master and senior tutor of the house are reacting very well in treating this as a serious incident. I think that the fact that it happened at this time of AWARE [Actively Working Against Racism and Ethnocentrism] reinforces the idea that we need to address these issues and that the problem of college racism is a real issue...
...beginning of this year, though, Herscu found himself in serious trouble. Hit by rising interest rates in Australia and declining retail sales in the U.S., the 61-year-old empire builder did not have enough cash to weather the slowdown. By August, Hooker's U.S. subsidiary filed for bankruptcy, and Herscu resigned as chief executive...
...very sorry to see it go," said G.V. Biden, a customer since 1951. As shoppers last week scouted for bargains among Ralph Lauren shirts and Anne Klein coats, some decided to hold out for even steeper discounts. Sigoloff concedes that in the next few weeks "you'll see some serious price cutting as we try to move the older B. Altman inventory." GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, blared the bright red signs scattered throughout the old emporium. CLOSING OUR DOORS FOREVER...
...better, some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much...