Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although school-officials believe that the dispute is settled, Johnson's attorney, Fred Phelps, warns that he is "probably going to file a class action suit" seeking damages for all of Topeka's black students as victims of racial discrimination. Says Phelps: "There's not going to be any want of available clients." If such a suit is brought, one thing seems certain. No attempt will be made to keep the outcome secret...
...suggested that this Thursday's election had become too close to call. Beyond that, other polls indicated that Callaghan had a 19% lead over his Tory rival in popularity and that up to one-fifth of the electorate was undecided. Among those uncertain voters were millions of working-class housewives, who were Thatcher's prime target on her electoral blitz...
Despite her middle-class manner and accent, Thatcher in fact is a grocer's daughter from a market town in Lincolnshire. Her campaign strategy was designed in part to impress working-class voters, especially women, that she shared their concern about prices and other gut economic issues. At a shopping mall in Halifax, she brandished in her right hand a shopping bag crammed full of groceries, while in her left hand she held a half-empty one. "The right hand," she trilled, "was what a pound would buy under the Tory government in 1974; the other is what...
...council ceased to be a representative body and became an activities committee--that detracted from its ability as a spokesman for the freshman class." Anthony Meyer '82, a council representative, said Tuesday...
...Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was involved in singling out a nation or a religious group or a race for systematic oppression. Why did my friend say "nation, religious group, or race" and not say "class"? Isn't genocide also the genocide of a class? I beg leave of good Dean Bowersock to translate the word "genus" in genocide as the killing of a class as well as of a race. Isn't the oppression that we've see in the world since World War II been...