Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...notoriously materialistic decade of the '80s draws to a close, America must renew concern for its future and the future of its children, newscaster Jane Pauley said in her Class Day speech yesterday afternoon...
What are Vellucci's concerns? He says his primary goal is to protect his working class constituents. That means protecting neighborhoods from big developers--including Harvard--and upholding rent control. The only city councillor still serving who voted for the city rent control ordinance in 1969, Vellucci describes himself as thearchitect of the system...
...Harvard announces its yield for the Class of '93 to be 71 percent, 1 percent off last year's level. Asian-American students amount to over 17.4 percent of the class, a record by 3 percent over previous levels. Minority student representation reaches 32 percent, also a record, about a point and a half above earlier levels. Hispanic students also were admitted at record highs, and reached about 6 percent of the class. Black student representation, however, remains set at about 8 percent...
...experience running Dukakis' operation bolstered Estrich's scholarship, as well. Her newly acquired knowledge of, and experience with, election law has been an area of growth which she has been able to share directly with students in her class. "It made me a better teacher," she says...
...They're creating a new political class that knows how to administer but doesn't know the people in the neighborhood," the article written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author J. Anthony Lukas quoted White as saying. "They talk about competence. I'd rather not be called competent. I'd be offended by that word...