Word: marginalization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Even given a substantial margin of error, however, the numbers indicate that the government's drive to register men may fall far short of the Selective Service's stated goal of 98-per-cent compliance nationwide. Anti-draft activists have estimated that about 15 per cent of the four million men they asked to register would refuse...
...change. It resisted Medicare, the federal medical program for the elderly, and still balks at government-run national health insurance. But lately the old club is becoming more relaxed. The latest sign of change came at the organization's annual meeting in Chicago last week. By an overwhelming margin, the A.M.A.'s 279-member legislative body, the house of delegates, approved sweeping revisions in the code of ethics that tells doctors how to conduct their practices...
...Coconut Grove, skeptics claimed that the city didn't do it out of social consciousness but because it was afraid the tourists would see an ugly side of town. As Miami has grown wealthier, the Blacks' poverty has become more noticeable, and the Blacks have been pushed onto the margin of economic life...
...government had survived. But, as one Cabinet member acknowledged, "the margin is getting narrower and narrower." The next challenge will probably come this fall, after the Knesset's summer recess. If Begin cannot return to work, the most likely candidate to replace him would be his current Foreign Minister, Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a longtime ally. But the hawkish Shamir, who favors expansion of the controversial Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, might not be able to commmand enough support to form a government...
With prices rising, productivity falling, and concern over the economy generally threatening to replace baseball as the national pastime, demand for the Journal's special brand of journalism should rise like margin calls in a bear market. All newspapers like to think they are in touch with the needs and feelings of their readers. The Wall Street Journal can go one step further. Says Kerby: "We're always touching the pocketbook nerve, which is the most sensitive nerve...