Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beckstead, 55, who now works as a search consultant in Simi Valley, Calif., learned of a sister -- who hadn't been put up for adoption. When they met, Gayle found a depressed high school dropout who had given up four out-of- wedlock children. The sister regarded the middle-class Beckstead with obvious envy. Beckstead recalls, "Her anger was, 'How come I was kept, and you were given away?' She saw the advantages of my life...
...power. Later in the week, Jiang gave a major anniversary address to top party leaders, model workers and soldiers that was larded with phrases from China's Stalinist past. "Failure to stick to the socialist road, while using the blood and sweat of laborers to fatten the capitalist class, will plunge most of the Chinese people into extreme poverty once again," he warned. Referring to sanctions imposed on China by some Western nations, he vowed never to "give up our national independence in exchange for alms...
Others prefer to see the debate as primarily an economic and class one, rather than a racial issue...
...changes in fundraising--which include targeting graduates by class year and tailoring the fundraising pitch to the alumnae's specific experiences at the University--come three months after Harvard and Radcliffe dissolved their joint annual giving fund for post-1976 alumnae...
...could call Saturday's demonstrators the class of '89. Their cause is every bit as important as the causes of their predecessors--Dr. King's civil rights marchers in 1964, the demonstrators for Soviet Jewry in 1987, the pro-choice marchers of last spring, and countless others...