Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some. Americans have confidently, even feverishly, borrowed money in record amounts to buy everything from compact disk players to country houses. The level of home mortgage debt has increased by 37% since December 1982, to $1.5 trillion. At the same time, the total of installment debt, which includes credit-card purchases, department-store credit and the like, has surged by 67%, to $548.7 billion...
...just so happens that Harvard is spending $1.2 million on a new library computer system to computerize the card catalogue. Unfortunately, only librarians can use it at present, and there are no definite plans to use the computers to reorganize the reserve system...
...foundations by contending that women have been repressed by the socially tolerated threat of rape. One implication is that women can never achieve equality with men until rape is wiped out. Another is that sexual relations are somehow inherently unjust, that a man always has the tacit trump card of a potential rape to play against his partner...
...impact of the SASC report became obvious after an intensive follow-up campaign convinced a number of key faculty members and Black South African leaders that the internship program must be re-evaluated. The significance of the controversy, however, goes well beyond the score card between SASC and Harvard and has highlighted fundamental problems with Harvard's attitude toward politically sensitive issues...
...real wild card in the French parliamentary election is Jean-Marie Le Pen, 57, a far-rightist. Le Pen has capitalized on France's xenophobia, waging a crusade that resembles in some of its substance and style the U.S. campaigns of Alabama Governor George Wallace during the 1960s. Le Pen and his National Front charge that France's 4.2 million immigrants are responsible for high unemployment and a high crime rate. Hidden just below the surface is veiled racism against immigrants. Le Pen has been charged with taking part in torture sessions while serving as a paratrooper in Algeria...