Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minority groups should be represented in legislatures in proportion to their numbers in the population, said Law School Professor Derrick Bell yesterday in a speech in Pound Hall...
...Bell, a civil rights specialist, said proportional representation based on race would make legislators more accountable to their constituencies. Under the current system of geographical representation, the will of the majority detracts from the needs of the minority, Bell said...
Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell resigned in 1984, weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...
...Though Bell did not accuse the President of making offensive remarks, the White House strongly denied his story. Said Presidential Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "Frankly, I don't believe...
...time the 4 p.m. closing bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange on what instantly became known as Black Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average had plunged 508 points, or an incredible 22.6%, to close for the day at 1738.74. Some $500 billion in paper value, a sum equal to the entire gross national product of France, vanished into thin air. Volume on the New York exchange topped 600 million shares, nearly doubling the all-time record. Brokers could find only one word to describe the rout, an old word long gone out of fashion but resurrected because...