Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Senor, baseball is a sport, Spanish is a class...
Sorry, but your observation that "capitalism has lifted the vast majority of laborers into the middle class" ignores the historic role of the labor union movement. Without the labor unions, Marx would have been right: workers would have been pushed "deeper into poverty...
...mind another false idol of our time: Bertolt Brecht. Brecht's purpose was not to bring down the Nazis but that tender sprout of democracy, the Weimar Republic. Rather than undermine the Nazi movement, Brecht et al. made the brown-shirted thugs acceptable to millions of middle-class Germans ("Somebody's got to do something!"), and thus contributed to the eventual rise of Hitler...
After nearly four years of pressure, the 62 surviving women cadets (out of the original 119) in the Class of '80, the first to admit women, are also fed up with the limelight. "I always try to avoid interviews," says one emphatically. "I say to reporters, 'Go ask that male cadet the same things...
...course that produced the shared exam answers and the scandal. But last year their presence caused a lesser scandal-that one involving dating cadets and outlawed hazing practices-that put the Academy on the front pages of the newspapers again. To an outsider the female attrition rate in the Class of '80, a shade under 50%, seems terribly high. But the Academy points out that it is one of the only institutions of higher learning in which 80% of every student's courses are required. In fact, the normal attrition rate for all-male classes, from failure, discipline...