Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really do think that it's important for people to begin to think of the world as other than for their own comfort and convenience--as a sort of resource for people to mine forever...
...point most thoughtful Wall Streeters agreed: the market had reached such dizzying heights that a correction of some sort seemed almost inevitable. Propelled by favorable economic news and a wave of multibillion-dollar takeovers, stocks had soared more than 1,000 points since the 1987 crash. But by last August some Wall Streeters were clearly worried. Noted Donald Stone, a floor specialist for Lasker, Stone & Stern: "I've been on the trading floor for 39 years, and I've never seen the market go up so fast for so long without a major break." Yet the bulls kept on running...
...disillusioned party member views state sponsorship of psychic and UFO studies as a new sort of official opiate. Says he: "They've been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying. At least this gives us something new to dream about." So the next time aliens approach and ask for directions, point them toward Moscow. The Soviets need them more than ever...
...search of New Orleans music. Woody first caught the bug at age 14, when he happened to hear a Saturday-morning radio show devoted to Bechet, one of the all-time great clarinet and soprano saxophone players. "I heard it, and it just sounded wonderful," he recalls. "It was sort of like an opening of the dike." With the facility for self-teaching that he would later demonstrate as writer and filmmaker, he laid his hands on a soprano sax and started to learn it. Bechet's driving, growling virtuosity on the sax, however, proved too difficult to emulate...
...ROTC debate was the first occasion that I remember on which the council affected my life in any sort of sustained way. For a week groups picketed, posters covered the Yard, and in virtually every house dining hall, students engaged in ideological arguments about homosexuality, financial aid and education...