Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What I object to is the idea that an entire generation born in 1968 and after are all self-serving snobs, while the generation born in the 1950s are all altruistic angels. The habit of generation-naming has become so widespread as to be harmful. Characterizing the '80s as the age of greed totally effaces the behind-the-scenes, unpublic sacrifices made by, for example, child abuse workers, drug counselors, AIDS-hotline staffers, soup-kitchen servers...
...them have attempted suicide (compared with 11% of straight adolescents), according to director Joyce Hunter. Some students have suffered humiliating sexual contacts in gay bars and on the sordid streets of Times Square. They know that although society has grown more tolerant of divergent life-styles, homosexuals still endure widespread hostility and a marked threat of AIDS and violence. Some young homosexuals go to enormous lengths to deny their sexuality. Teenage lesbians have been known to become pregnant in order to prove they are "normal...
...sociologist and novelist, complained in a recent article that regard for priestly celibacy is being undermined by a "national network" of actively homosexual clergy. "In some dioceses, certain rectories have become lavender houses," he grumbled. Theologian Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame contends that homosexuality is so widespread that "heterosexual males are deciding in ever increasing numbers not even to consider the priesthood...
...Lutherans brace for the ordination of a lesbian couple, Catholics face new reports indicating widespread homosexuality among priests. Can -- and should -- the age-old barrier be dropped...
BERLIN--Communist Party chief Egon Krenz yesterday ousted the old guard from the ruling Politburo and replaced them with reformers in a desperate to stymie widespread unrest and strengthen his three-week-old leadership...