Word: divisionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The million or so Americans who start orthodontic care each year can brace themselves to smile: the company that came up with Band-Aids has turned its attention to teeth. Johnson & Johnson's orthodontic division last week unveiled a new kind of bracket, the part of braces that affixes to...
"It's seed money for the establishment of a fund which eventually--a year or two from now--will hopefully have money to give out," said Silja S. Kallenbach, director of the division of adult literacy at the mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services.
Both Harvard and Northeastern had played doubleheaders Saturday with division titles on the line. While Dartmouth was eking out a pair of one-run victories over Harvard, the University of New Hampshire was sweeping Northeastern for the ECAC crown.
The other major factor Wilson cites is the widening class division between blacks who have escaped the ghetto and those who have not. In what may be the book's most contentious section, he argues that the easing of discrimination against middle-class blacks has contributed indirectly to the desperate...
As diplomats negotiate, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives are peddling their planes more aggressively than in the past. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-plane division: "We used to sell 727s like you sell Mercedes. This one's nice and there's the price on the window, take...