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...times as much as it is today." It turned out to be more than 33 times as large. "It will be gone by June," promised Variety in 1955 - talking about rock 'n' roll. "It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister," declared Margaret Thatcher...
...black or Asian students all eating and socializing separately—was indeed a problem that needed to be addressed. From there concrete solutions were difficult to come by, but audience members took turns relating experiences ranging from racial profiling to their experiences branching out to other ethnic groups. Margaret C. Dang ’12 said that she often feels “uncomfortable” in her own ethnic group, particularly because she does not speak Chinese. “I’ve been trying to find balance,” she told the audience...
...work. The economic-stimulus bill passed by Congress in February included $100 billion in new education spending. Of that total, Duncan has $5 billion in discretionary funding. That money alone makes him the most powerful Education Secretary ever. "I had very little--in the single-digit millions," says Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor. "That's millions, with...
...dare propose cuts this close to an election, even though debt will eventually force the government to either raise taxes or cut public services or both," he says. The incumbent Labour Party has already been projecting itself as the party that saved the NHS from years of neglect under Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives. But David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, has pledged to "ring-fence" NHS funding and make cuts elsewhere...
...Margaret T. Burns, spokeswoman for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, says viewing incidents like the one at the cookout as just gang violence is an easy way to package and discard the trouble. "It's so easy to calm everyone down and say these are two feuding gangs," she says. "Calling it a gang is a response that calms public fears but may not be necessarily accurate...