Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result is that presidential candidates of all stripes are waving the educational banner in the current campaign--vigorously debating such issues as "merit pay" for teachers, throwing out plans for funneling more money into educational programs, and generally trying to out-promise each other over what they plan to do to get the nation's schools back on track...
Once they got to work, though, plenty was going on, including celebratory breakfasts, pizza parties and balloon poppings. In San Francisco, a giant banner showing the company's globelike logo was unfurled at AT&T's regional headquarters. At its Manhattan offices, the new, slimmed-down AT&T got quickly down to work and showed that things would be changing in American business. On Monday, the company signed an agreement under which Convergent Technologies, a computer manufacturer, will build new products for AT&T. Before the breakup, such a move would have been barred by the Government...
...course, not the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which had occurred exactly four years earlier. Instead, the Afghans were demonstrating against the U.S. invasion of Grenada, a military action that had begun in October and effectively ended after eight weeks. In the Soviet news film, the marchers carried a banner demanding U.S. IMPERIALISTS, HANDS OFF GRENADA ISLAND! The banner was in English, which probably reduced its readership in Kabul but certainly suggested something else: the broadcast was intended not so much to persuade Soviet audiences of U.S. perfidy as to distract Western attention from the historic day when nearly...
January 4--President Bok announces that his decision on a successor to Henry Rosovsky as Dean of the Faculty is imminent. Press releases end with a row of six mysterious hieroglyphics. Two days later, the same characters appear on a large banner hung out the front windows of Mass Hall. Bok, in response to questions, only chuckles, adding, "Secrecy is clarity...
When the transports touched down at Pope Air Force Base near Fort Bragg, N.C., four hours later, the returning troops were met by a banner-waving crowd. "Let no one tell you you're not in an Army of excellence, because you are excellent," shouted Deputy Under Secretary of the Army John W. Shannon over the din on the rain-drenched tarmac. President Reagan echoed the sentiment in a speech before the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in New York City: "Our days of weakness are over. Our military forces are back on their feet and standing tall...