Word: beare
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will not replace protests in the streets, but a six-month-old Seattle company has come up with a new way for people to make a social or political statement. Called Message!Check, the firm works with printers around the U.S. to produce personal bank checks that bear slogans like THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK AND DRIVE. Message!Check has recruited several nonprofit organizations, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to supply slogans. The organizations, in turn, encourage their supporters to buy the checks and use them for paying bills. A new check commissioned by the National Organization for Women debuted this...
Strangely these stories do not bear down on the reader with the weight of their brutal sex and violence; rather it is Angelo's stylistic violence that is almost unbearable. The graphic, crude rape of Bete, a prostitute, and the torture and murder of five men innocently drinking at the local bar stand out almost as welcome reference points in a mass of words that create--and then ignore--these scenes of horror...
City Councilor Saundra Graham said, "We [the city] are not going to bear the burden of all the homelessness in this city." She said that Harvard needs to work with Cambridge in this area and in developing strategies to deal with the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts that threaten both university and city revenues...
Consequently, this year's staff is the only legitimate successor to the first Harvard Political Review staff in 1969. My former colleagues and I will support--financially and morally--any magazine they put together, even if it is no longer allowed to bear the title Harvard Political Review. A staff chosen by other means--including students the institute picks--has no right to run this magazine. Put bluntly, they are interlopers who have inherited the Review through force and intimidation...
Inaccuracy and misrepresentation are indeed as inexcusable in the classroom as they are in the newspapers. However, they bear little resemblance to the biases and imbalances condemned...