Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was some good news. Since 1973 there has been a narrowing of the performance gap between younger black children and the national average-from 15 to only ten percentage points behind for nine-year-olds, and from 21% to 18% for 13-year-olds. Gains were reported for students in economically depressed areas. But 17-year-olds-both black and poor-remain as far behind as they were five years ago. Among questions that helped detect such differences: "The floor of a rectangular room has an area of 96 sq. ft. Its width is 8 ft. How long...
...quarter, bringing the cumulative red ink for the year to about $800 million, the report projected that the total 1979 loss would come to a truly scary $1.073 billion on revenues of $12.4 billion. The company expects to lose another $482 million next year, then move back into the black in 1981, when it projects a profit of $383 million on sales of $ 15.6 billion...
...went bankrupt. The total cost to the nation, Chrysler says, would be $16 billion. Some 400,000 workers could not only lose their jobs, but they could also remain unemployed long enough to require unemployment benefits totaling $1.5 billion. As many as 35,000 workers, most of whom are black, could be laid off in Detroit alone. Yet these estimates seem exaggerated, because it is highly unlikely that the company would ever shut down totally. At worst some plants would close, but many would go right on operating...
...that lesson to use again in 1970 when he discovered an invitation on a colleague's desk announcing a cocktail party honoring the Black Panthers. The event was to be held at the Manhattan home of Maestro Leonard Bernstein. Wolfe attended, steno pad and ball point ready. The result was Radical Chic, another heretical howler that captured the well-intentioned banalities of "limousine liberals." A few years later, in The Painted Word, Wolfe took on the New York art establishment, setting forth the impish thesis that a few powerful critics controlled what was painted and sold...
...novel, dwells still more obsessively on this subject. The title begins in irony. Konrad Vost is neither passionate nor an artist but rather an epitome of timid rationality. Hawkes stresses his hero's stylized anonymity, his "small perfectly round gold-rimmed spectacles, his two ill-fitting suits of black serge, his black turtleneck shirts, his pointed shoes that were always worn at the heels and covered with a faint dusting of powdered concrete from the walls of unfinished buildings ..." Vost dwells in a characterless (and imaginary) European town, works as "a mere clerk in a dismal pharmacy" and plays...