Word: almost
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BEFORE that can occur, however, it must be realized that the racism that exists today is not the same as that which precipitated the movement for equality almost thirty years ago. Segregation, for example, although no longer legal, quite ostensibly still mars many of this country's major businesses...
Even Harvard is not immune to such occurrences, as I learned first hand from an episode almost two years ago when I was a first-year student. It came unexpectedly from a white student who, under normal circumstances, was cordial to me. But during one evening of heavy drinking, he came at me, unprovoked, hurling out that much abhorred racial epithet that is a corruption of the word "Negro...
...austral) had fallen during the past year from a value of about $1.25 to roughly one-seventh of a cent. Every Monday morning, the banks were flooded with people desperately trying to change their fast-depreciating australs to U.S. dollars, the de facto national currency that is welcomed almost anywhere...
...infrequent occasions when friends and acquaintances still pass around a bootleg joint, my reaction remains benign tolerance. Just a few weeks ago, when marijuana made a furtive appearance at my wife's 20th high school reunion in upstate New York, I viewed this throwback gesture as a quaint affectation, almost as if the class of '69 had all shown up in tie-dye T shirts instead of business suits and cocktail dresses...
...trend is not confined to cassettes. Almost one-third of the country's 24,000 movie screens are also bombarding patrons with commercials. "We are purveyors of entertainment that sells," says Terry Laughren, president of Screenvision Cinema Network, the largest distributor of theater advertising...