Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...order for the NLRB to approve District 65's request for an election, at least 30 per cent of the employees must submit cards to the Board saying they favor unionization. The NLRB must then determine that the group of employees has a distinct "community of interests...
...university such as Harvard, whose traditions, food, social life, arts, and academics are so overwhelmingly Eurocentric, there is little institutional support for Asian Americans to explore and clarify our own distinct identities and experiences. Many of Harvard's Asian students come from suburbs where we were among the few Asians in our neighborhoods. We have had few role models from whom to gather pride in our history and heritage--we learn to relate exclusively to the majority experience and wish to be white. For those of us who have grown up in Asian communities our alienation and culture shock...
Despite their similarities, however, each of the shows has a distinct personality. Today is like a morning newspaper, solid, informative but sometimes pompous and solemn. The set, so old now that it is encrusted with dust, is dominated by an official-looking horseshoe-shaped desk, behind which are chairs for the staff and a giant backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made...
...dream Europe that he could never bring himself to visit. He spent most of his working life in a frame house on Utopia Parkway in Queens, N.Y., which he shared with his mother and his brother Robert, who had been crippled in childhood by cerebral palsy. It was a distinct comedown from his earlier years, when his father (also Joseph), who died in 1917, supported his family in elegance by buying and designing textiles. From that domestic seclusion, the gray and long-beaked man would sally forth on small voyages of discovery: to Central Park in the snow, to Times...
...drivers and commuting motorists-and, above all, pedestrians who chance to step in the path of a kamikaze ten-speed scorching silently up on the blind side. Bicycles, those sweet chariots of the old Consciousness III, now flourishing under the flag of narcisso-fitness, are becoming a distinct source of urban tension...