Word: normans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court's ruling gave no indication of whether the guards' suit, or others like it, would succeed. Nor did it suggest any new standard to which employers might be held. "It just opens the door," said Norman Chachkin of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. "But a decision going the other way would have shut the door with a pretty big clang...
...Norman Lear TV sitcoms have made metropolitan racial melanges like this into laugh material for a more sophisticated and cynical generation. But growing up in the real situation, in a New York neighborhood where racial barriers were as inflexible as foreign borders, the laughs did not come easy. "I felt like I was being punished, cut off," Jeffreys remembers. "It made me lonely." And scared of the sound of his stepfather's foot on the stair...
...than half of the states have passed minimum or mandatory sentencing laws since 1970. The new laws, enacted to placate a public demanding tough sentences, often make little distinction among crimes; for example, judges are forced to lock up shoplifters and forgers along with murderers and armed robbers. Contends Norman Carlson, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons: "The knee-jerk response of many legislators in passing harsher sentencing statutes threatens to overwhelm our corrections system...
...ideal probably had begun to fade when Norman Mailer published a hodgepodge of fiction and autobiography under the title Advertisements for Myself. In any case, windy self-advertisement became more and more popular in the years that followed. Said John Lennon at the peak of the Beatles' popularity: "We're more popular than Jesus Christ now." Said Heavyweight Boxer Muhammad Ali, in a typical flight: "It ain't no accident that I'm the greatest man in the world at this time in history." The same period at last produced an intellectual model for publicly saluting...
...expanding student body has also hampered the school's ability to place students in jobs, especially at a time when the economy is shaky and the President has imposed a federal hiring freeze. The job search program at the K-School has expanded to accommodate more students, but Norman Smith, dean of student services, admits that "growth has caused a problem in the sense that each person is not getting very individualistic service...