Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...because we don't want black radio to see they're white, and we don't want white radio to see they're black." Don says Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...
...never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President was really quite supportive, particularly given the pressures that he was under from his own people. He had some basic instinct that he didn't like inflation, which was a great help to us. He wasn't necessarily enthusiastic in his support, but he wasn't heavily critical...
When Martha Page went to work as a trainee for Chicago's Harris Trust, she soon learned that "all the women were required to type and the men were not." Recalls another former Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk: "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination...
...Pentagon backlash. While Reagan celebrated deregulation as the key to a more creative economy, lax scrutiny of the savings and loan industry contributed to widespread failures that will cost taxpayers tens of billions. Wall Street's obsession with wasteful takeovers diverted resources away from constructive investment, while stagnation in basic research for civilian technology inhibited innovation. Efforts to compete effectively with Japan and other striving industrial rivals suffered accordingly. Looser ethical standards and the adoration of capitalism led to a wave of scandals in and out of government that rivaled the excesses of the Gilded...
This distinction, while obvious enough, is of utmost importance in analyzing the growing strength of the animal rights movement in the United States. While some of its goals may be noble, and some of its means acceptable, its basic premise is faulty. Most of the animal rights groups gaining publicity and popularity in the United States do think that killing animals is murder because they believe that animals and humans have the exact same right to live free from undue pain and suffering...