Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That situation should bode well for short-term U.S. competitiveness, but discontent among American workers is rising. Says Harley Shaiken, a labor economist at the University of California at San Diego: "It amounts to a reversal of the American dream." Agrees Rudy Oswald, chief economist for the AFL-CIO: "There is a growing feeling of 'We won't take any more of this...
...admirers, Houston's success represents an overdue vindication of that neglected American institution, the black middle class. Here is a morality play with a happy ending: two strong, affectionate parents nurturing their talented daughter toward the show-biz dream of fame without pain. To scoffers in the rock critical Establishment, though, the 5-ft. 8-in., 115-lb. beauty is a black Barbie doll. To them, Whitney's voice, so willing to roam through the breadth of pop music, shows no emotional depth; they find the selection of her songs bland and timid...
...Mozart, Bentkowski works on his designs. Often he plays a wide range of music on his record-and-tape system, a reminder of the days when he wrote a column of rock criticism for New York magazine, from 1977 to 1984. There have been other aspirations. "I used to dream of becoming a hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After graduating from Pratt Institute, he worked on a host of publications, among them Saturday Review...
...night of my conception," wrote Chogyam Trungpa, who would be cremated in a Vermont mountain meadow before a sizable audience in the spring of this year, "my mother had a very significant dream that a being had entered her body with a flash of light; that year flowers bloomed in the neighborhood although it was still winter...
...that racism and discrimination have not vanished into history, that they are as much in the present as in the past, and that your goal is to not let it pass into the future. You know that as long as our children are denied equal access to the American Dream, your work must...