Word: 1950s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They're wearing black, so you know they're serious. CHER, DEMI MOORE and SISSY SPACEK have just wrapped HBO's three-part drama If These Walls Could Talk, the story of unplanned pregnancies in the 1950s, '70s and '90s. Moore produced the series, and Cher's episode is her directorial debut. "I loved it. It was the coolest thing since men," says Cher. "But it was much more exhausting than I thought. I had to sneak away to pee." Cher also plays a doctor who gets shot, which she didn't like as much. "I was afraid...
Although Feldstein declined to discuss policies mentioned, he said a proposal to raise the minimum wage--which has fallen to its lowest real level since the early 1950s--was "not a major subject...
...latter half of the 20th century has brought not only the professionalization and standardization of curricula, but also an ostensible commitment to a degree of egalitarianism and meritocracy in America's top schools. Harvard moved to a need-blind admissions policy in the 1950s, according to Fitzsimmons...
...Souza argue that the academic rigors of society and Americans' competitiveness is decreasing because of the large number of undesirables and unqualifieds entering universities and jobs all around the country at the expense of bright whites and Asians. The argument reminds one of the segregationist platform in the 1950s and 1890s which argued that allowing black children to be educated in the same schools around white children would denigrate them intellectually. The true intent, during those times and during our own, is to keep as many African-Americans and Latinos as possible outside of places deemed "whites only," which include...
Putnam argues that the country does not need to return to the 1950s era, but instead should create new civic institutions similar to those the country saw spring up at the end of the 19th century...