Word: manners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironic that the protest began with "Let us speak!" Let me speak. Let me tell you, all of you, including any of you that protested that night, that the UC is a forum with a procedure to guarantee in a fair manner that people can speak, that they will not be shouted down, or that the process be so disrupted that meetings will have to be adjourned. Let me tell you that when the meeting had been forced to adjourn, I was at first elated by this Pyrrhic victory, thinking something to the effect of "that will show them." Show...
...past few years has jeopardized that objective. Last month the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin took a first step toward restoring some measure of racial civility. If the state legislature approves the plan adopted by the regents, students caught hurling racial epithets in a threatening manner will be expelled from school...
Real estate experts have accused the FSLIC of being inept at dispensing with property in a speedy but careful manner. The problem, they charge, is that the agency is riddled with bureaucrats who cannot make sharp, quick business judgments. Says Sam Pierce, a Houston-based adviser to the thrifts: "The FSLIC doesn't know a good deal from a bad one. They don't have the necessary brainpower or manpower...
...atonished to hear someone demonize Jackson in this manner several years ago. Since then I have understood differing degrees of this association to be held by quite a few American Jews. Jackson called Jews "Hymies" (he apologized), met with Yassir Arafat, critized Jewish landlords and did not explicitly repudiate the anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan (although he did repudiate Farrakhan's anti-Semitic statements). Therefore, these people argue, Jackson can be compared to Hitler...
Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...