Word: label
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...equation of conservatives with racists is a form of blanket stereotyping that is nearly as disgusting as racism itself. To label a person with a term as ugly as "racist" is a step that should not be taken lightly. Unfortunately, Boyd seems to have no qualms in doing so. I like to think that people form their political beliefs after careful thought about issues and policies that are important to them. Such choices should be respected. This respect for others' political beliefs lies at the very core of a functioning pluralistic political system. It is ludicrous to imply that every...
...artsy accent. "Bringing the-ah-ter to the masses." Franklin nips at a bottle of Maalox and goes off to work singing "It's a beautiful day in Peoria" to the tune of Mr. Rogers' theme song. Burns starts his day with Mountain Dew, because he has checked the label and found caffeine prominent among the ingredients...
...predictable. In interviews during and after the ceremony, band after band remarked how unsurprised they were as to who had been winning. No one raised eyebrows at such choices as 'til tuesday as Act of the Year, the Lyres as Best Garage Band, or Throwing Muses as Best Independent-label Debut...
...controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
...want to press ahead with the radical innovations such as profits and private ownership that Deng, 82, has begun. On the other are mostly aging hard-liners determined to slow or roll back Deng's reforms and quiet the winds of Western-style democratic change, which they derisively label "bourgeois liberalization." Led by Peng Zhen, 85, chairman of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the conservatives showed their power in the ouster of Hu, Deng's hand-picked successor, who was fired for failing to crack down on massive student demonstrations last December that called for democratic...