Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abandon the facile descriptions and labels for these minority students and ask, "Who are they really?" If we trim down that generality and ask, "Who are these students?" then we may get somewhere. Let us specify at once what they are not. They are not those students whose race, culture, value systems, etc. do figure predominantly in the much discussed "sample." Many of them, though not all, line up along the top edges of the curves used to design national standardized tests. We often hear the claim that they are not numerous enough to constitute a control group, and thus...
Peter Sideris, a barber at a Brattle St. barber shop, said yesterday, "People think they will get chopped up by oldtimers, so men have started to abandon traditional barber shops...
...most outspoken homeland chiefs, has said, "I challenge anyone to prove to me that the majority of blacks do in fact want the so-called independence which is offered to our Reserves, now called 'homelands'...The majority of the black people do not want to abandon their birth right. They have toiled for generations to create the wealth of South Africa. They intend to participate in the wealth of the land...
Ford strategists are, in fact, convinced that the President must abandon any above-the-battle posture and more and more make Carter the issue. The polls released last week had Ford trailing by five to eight percentage points, which, if they hold, translate into a Carter landslide. They doubtless reflected news of the previous week-Ford's toughest-marked by the debate loss to Carter and the resignation under fire of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
However shaky her methodology, Hite is not about to abandon her sex research. She is once again circulating questionnaires, this time for a report on male sexuality. A possible hint of things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...