Word: moment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best moment, the staff concludes, "Segregation, voluntary or involuntary, accentuates differences and breeds intolerance." This is vitally, damnably true. But exaggeration or misinterpretation of the degree of this segregation risks a blind, reflexive response. The place for correcting very human, very social failings, lies within students themselves. Holding otherwise risks the accusation of paternalism, cynicism and shortsightedness...
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...right stands together on social issues, it risks falling together on the environment. Though conservatives and conservation are linguistically related words, most of the former have given the latter scant thought. For a brief moment ten years ago, we geared up to argue that one of the reasons why nuclear power is desirable is that it is safer and cleaner than coal, gas and oil. We were right. But Three Mile Island made the issue politically moot, and we've barely been heard from since. We can save elephants more effectively than liberals can. We also have to show that...
...minute film Doggie Adventure has never appeared in theaters and has an unusual point of view. Filmed mostly from a camera height of about 2 ft., it features scenes ranging from a car ride to a duck chase in the park. Its climactic moment is a stroll past a fire hydrant. You guessed it. Doggie Adventure (price: $14.95) is a videocassette designed to relieve canine boredom when a dog is left home alone. Says Harley Toberman, the film's creator: "I always knew that dogs watched TV, but usually there's nothing worthwhile for them to watch." Sometimes...
...issue requires any West German leader to navigate not with a telescope but with a kaleidoscope. One of Kohl's primary targets was West German voters, and he no doubt hoped to revive his dismal political fortunes. He faces a general election in December 1990, and at the moment his Christian Democratic Party's chances are rated as questionable. Since the tumultuous events leading up to the dismantling of the Berlin Wall began last August, Kohl has been attacked relentlessly for a flat-footed response to a historic moment. When he appeared on the steps of the Schoneberg town hall...