Word: context
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine Called Yale "a troubled institution," but said problems in New Haven must be seen in the context of "many, many troubled institutions...
...eloquent sampler: a punitive-inspirationa l hymn to hard work, family, integrity and personal responsibility. Some people later took Quayle's words to be fatuous white-bread truisms -- Norman Rockwell evocations of an America long gone. But if the ideas could be considered outside the inflammatory political and racial context of the moment, they had a ring of common sense. A number of black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, might have made the same points without controversy -- and have. The family, ^ Quayle said, is important, and "the failure of our families is hurting America deeply . . . Children need love and discipline. They...
...second, less explicit layer of meaning, the Quayle line took on complex racial colorations. He suggested that Murphy Brown was a bad role model for unmarried females. In the speech's context, he was talking about single mothers in the ghetto. But like so much in last week's odd episode, there were signs of hip shooting and inadvertence...
...that is a pittance compared with the $125 billion that Strong has said the developed nations will need to contribute annually to protect natural resources and clean up pollution. (The developing countries, he says, would have to put up an additional $500 billion a year.) To put that in context, the annual U.S. defense budget is $290 billion. "The bottom line is money," says Kamal Nath, India's Minister of Environment and Forests. "If the West does not give funds, the Earth Summit will die a natural death...
...shared by others; so, in the interest of education, we will endeavor to answer this question. Although ,it is true that "no" is a single syllable word, there are a number of reasons that might make it psychologically difficult for a woman to say "no" in the context of a date rape situation...