Word: affectedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Court paved the way for further advances in corporate political power. The Court, in the case of First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, declared unconstitutional a Massachusetts state law prohibiting corporations from spending money to influence state-wide initiataive campaigns when the issue at stake does not materially affect them. (Note that even this powerful law could not and did not prevent soft drink manufacturers from spending money to defeat the bottle bill initiative.) Justice Powell, in writing the majority opinion, stated: "[Free speech] is indispensable to decisionmaking in a democracy, and this is not less true because speech...
...upshot, concludes Wallace, is that black men bought the racist "blackbuck" image of themselves. They became content to mouth slogans ("Black Power") and affect Afro hairdos and guns, and all but abandoned effective political action. "Come 1966," says Wallace in her polemic style, "the black man had two pressing tasks before him: a white woman in every bed and a black woman under every heel." In response, she says, black women became more submissive and, despite the image of some social scientists of black society as a matriarchy, no longer behaved like the mythic black superwoman...
...million more black women than men. But they insist that the real trouble is rooted in lingering hostilities between blacks and whites: the high jobless rate among black men, the curtailment of affirmative-action programs and other manifestations of what many blacks consider a white backlash, all of which affect the black male's sense of self and thus his relationships with women...
...played pretty well," Dales, who only double bogied twice, said yesterday. "My biggest problem was some hay fever. But since I was playing well, it didn't affect me that much." He added that he had no problems with the 90-degree temperatures yesterday...
...Trudeau convincingly won the Liberal Party leadership and proceeded to sweep the country in dynamic fashion. The Canadian media coined the phrase "Trudeaumania" to describe the prevalent attitude at the polls. Four years later, Trudeau's charisma failed to affect as many voters; seemingly unconvinced by the party's slogan, "The land is strong," the electorate gave Trudeau a tenuous minority government after the majority mandate of '68. Predictably, the weakened government fell in 1974, and things looked grim for the Liberals heading into the July election...