Word: banners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Silber's record on civil rights date back to his vocal opposition to segregation at the University of Texas. According to the Bay State Banner, a newspaper serving Boston's minority community, Silber is a "visionary...his long record as a civil rights leader merit[s] the supports of blacks and progressives...
...DEPART from the Huey Long fantasy for a moment, one might expect that some contemporary leader would have taken up Long's populist banner already, especially considering growing popular resentment of the widening rich-poor gap and the legacy of the "Reagan revolution...
...municipal bonds (GOs). They're tax-free and, being "general obligations" of a state, city or county, they are highly unlikely to default. It may be too early to buy them -- the level of interest rates may rise, and the financial woes of cities and states are not yet banner headlines -- but if the top federal income tax bracket is raised, they will become more valuable. Just remember that the high cost of trading municipal bonds means they should be bought and held...
John Wayne, or possibly John Rambo, was still ghosting around some American imaginations last week. A banner stretched across I-75 in north Georgia -- a route the 101st Airborne traveled from Fort Campbell, Ky. -- gave the troopers a parting thought: GET THEIR GAS AND KICK THEIR ASS. Adrenaline, jingo and doubt mingled with sheer weirdness and a sort of emergency-issue nostalgia, as if Americans were rummaging through old LIFE magazines, dipping back into the lore of World War II to discover the styles of leave taking, of sweethearts' goodbyes. Television-news shows offered small touches of the USO, airing...
...grownup. Among the Palestinians, effective moral authority now has a median age of 14 or 15 and a good throwing arm. Fathers and grandfathers have signed over their moral duties to the children in the streets. The traditional patriarchy begins to disintegrate. The Palestine Liberation Organization still serves as banner and facade, but many Palestinians believe that it is increasingly feckless, corrupt and out of touch. The failures of leadership on either side of the struggle collaborate to create a sense of hopelessness. Hamas, the fundamentalist Islamic movement, feeds handsomely upon the ambient despair...