Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doing so simply is not trendy. And Lord knows, no Harvard student would ever dare stray from the crowd...
...failed program in particular reveals how hypocritical liberals are in castigating Murray and Herrnstein. Murray and Herrnstein are wicked men, we are told, because they dare to look at people in terms of groups. But liberals, at least since Marx, have not only viewed people in terms of groups, but have argued that individuals are entitled to certain benefits simply by virtue of their membership in an "oppressed" group. Liberals call this illiberal dogma "affirmative action...
CONTROVERSY: DARE Bedeviled...
...DARE, what? Before DARE, says David Seibles, a 10-year veteran with the Gwinnett County police department in Georgia, "it used to be that you'd come in once a year and say, 'Don't do drugs,' and by the time you'd get to the front door, the kids had forgotten everything you said." Says Debbie Allred, principal of Cedar Hill Elementary School in Gwinnett County: "If we didn't have DARE, we'd miss it tremendously. It would be a great loss...
...prurience of the Christian Right and the self-righteousness of Playboy, making love is a wonderful good time. It's no wonder that Senator Helms cut off government funding for the study -- Republican ideology today is so cynical, so hooked on visions of degeneracy and decline that Republicans dare not admit we are a nation of couples having a good time getting naked now and then. According to the results, however, the Fundamentalists among us are doing it too. Even in well-kept Republican homes in the suburbs, in bedrooms full of Early American gewgaws and praying-hands plaques...