Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same enthusiasm that he showed for Shakespeare. Feeling that he now had an economic explanation for racial injustice, he joined others on the traditional soapbox to orate, as he put it, on "everything from the French Revolution and the history of slavery, to the rise of the working class. It was one of the great intellectual forums of America." He also started a radical magazine, The Messenger, which questioned why Negroes should fight in World War I when they were denied freedom at home. The Woodrow Wilson Administration, which moved to segregate the civil service, labeled Randolph the "most dangerous...
...receivers are expected to reject Murty's latest offer. He charges that they have been under pressure all along to favor the Aga Khan's bid, which was well below what a public auction might have realized. The prince got some first-class mares, Murty says, but still was not satisfied. "He wanted to corner the market on the Boussac mares." The Aga Khan's reponse: "I don't see why I should be heaped with insults just because Murty took a bad business risk." Had Murty "made a more reasonable bid in the beginning, none...
Frustrated by what it regards as conflicting goals set by various Government agencies for hiring and promoting minorities and women, Sears, Roebuck and Co. brought a class-action suit against ten federal agencies last January. Sears wanted a clarification of affirmative-action policy and an admission from the Government that the company's hiring practices, long the subject of an investigation by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were within...
...prime-time shows he sees with a view to improving his understanding of economics. After watching CBS's Alice, he noted that Alice's high standard of living is not consistent with her job as a waitress in a small restaurant. In Eric's class, Economics Teacher Rudy Johnson asks, "How much job security does a small restaurant owner like Mel (Alice's Boss) have?"And a student responds,"Not much, because small places like that go broke a lot." Smoothly, Johnson moves the discussion to the subject of extra risks that face small businesses throughout...
...culture can now turn art into a "reproducible commodity." Nelson Rockefeller pushed the ability to copy art into a $4 million investment. Several weeks before he died, he mailed more than 500,000 catalogs to an upper middle-class audience he hoped would splurge for one of his 118 high-quality reproductions, ranging in price from a $65 teapot stand to a $7500 bronze statue...