Word: bandwagoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that alcoholic employees are costing them countless billions a year, many companies are investing money and effort in affirmative action. Since the late '40s, when the first industrial programs started, some 200 firms, including General Motors, Hughes Aircraft and even Hiram Walker, the distiller, have jumped on the bandwagon, the majority of them in the past five years. Many of the firms have written the plans into their union contracts...
...Dinner held in the Laurel County High School gym at London, Ky. As he rose to speak, the object of the Republicans' affection smiled modestly and let the pledge and its portents go by without comment. Vice President Gerald Ford was much too careful to start his own bandwagon rolling at this early date, yet the fact that it was already moving showed how prized he is by the Republicans...
...their pell-mell and sometimes unseemly rush to ensure harmony on campus, many college administrators agreed to institute some form of pass/fail grading. By 1971 an estimated three-quarters of the nation's colleges and universities were offering alternatives to traditional marking systems. Eager to ride the professional bandwagon, a number of high schools and grade schools were quick to follow...
Even though Americans were slow to face up to the import of the slaughters in Vietnam and the deceptions of Watergate, do not be surprised if Americans, especially older ones, are quick to rally around the energy crisis bandwagon. In the 1920s all this country needed was a good five cent cigar. Now, by the same logic, all the country needs is for someone to put a 50 mile an hour speed limit on the pace of life...
...large compared with the major rock festivals, but they indicate that the Jesus movement, unlike many aspects of the youth counterculture, has survived the fad phase and is settling down for the long haul. Says Christine Clausen, 22, a Californian who is now evangelizing in Germany: "The trippers, the bandwagon jumpers, the people who were just looking for another high have left...