Word: callings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group that perpetuates this stereotype most, the media, is also the group most likely to deny its existence. When asked about their tendency to call white players smarter and Black players better athletes, several prominent broadcasters, almost all of them white, point to specific cases where the stereotype is true--cases where the Black is the better natural athlete--and insist that they are color-blind when they call the games...
...woman herself is an interesting psychological study. She epitomizes what some people call the modern malaise--with her complete isolation from others and her self-absorption. Unfortunately, her character is so unattractive that it is difficult to read through a novel that does not leave her side for a moment...
Republican Bob Martinez is the first Governor to announce a special session of the state legislature to deal with abortion; he says he will call it sometime before mid-October. One legislator has already filed a bill mirroring the Missouri law upheld by the Supreme Court; pro-lifers plan to introduce further measures, including one allowing fathers to intervene in abortion decisions. But it is far from certain that any restrictions will be enacted. A poll in May found that 59% of Florida voters and 51% of state legislators consider abortion a private matter. Pro-choice Democrats will...
...rolling cornfields of Dodgeville, Wis., (pop. 4,000), where 3,000 workers fill orders in a warehouse the size of ten football fields. The Middle-American locale is what Lands' End is all about. The company cultivates a shamelessly folksy image, urging readers of its magazine ads to call a "friendly southern Wisconsin voice." Lands' End operators, many of whom are housewives or students from the surrounding farm country, are famous for their willingness to chat, even about the weather. "We're trying to build a relationship with a customer, not consummate a sale," says President Richard Anderson...
...Senate reconvened for the first time since it was abolished in 1946 were Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and Communist chief General Wojciech Jaruzelski. If their propinquity reflects the vast changes overtaking the country, so does the scheduled arrival of George Bush this week, paying the first U.S. presidential call in Warsaw in twelve years...