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...last, and it was. Bloody street clashes in the 1970s over court-ordered school busing were followed in 1980 by necessary but ineptly handled budget slashes. His reputation as a slick manager damaged, White went on the defensive. He indulged in a regal life-style that earned him the epithet "King Kevin...
...This is an epithet dreamed up by the Shah and later propagated by Khomeini and company. To answer your question, we must first establish what Marxism is. If it is dialectic materialism and historical determinism and, by later additions, the dictatorship of the proletariat, it is certainly not the Mujahedin's Islam. If dedication to social justice is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. If opposition to class privilege and exploitation is Marxism, then the Mujahedin are Marxists. Of course, in this case, you have to say that Moses, Jesus Christ and Muhammad were Marxists...
...Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from a waiter. "I'm honored. It's fun. It's wonderful. I'm having a wonderful year...
...producers of basic metals such as steel and copper. As demand for metals lurched lower and layoffs swelled, the once pulsing industrial belt that stretches from Illinois across to western New England took on the grim, ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of Rust Bowl. By December, the nation's steelmakers were operating at less than 35% of capacity, the lowest rate since 1938, and at least one concern, the steelmaking division of Lukens, Inc. of Coatesville, Pa., planned virtually to close up for ten days over the Christmas and New Year...
...guarantee the future success of Harvard students. He has also called his seven opponents for the chairmanship "maggots" and "the base excrement of mediogrity." "Predictably he's been called a few names himself, including "fascist," "beffecn" and "the nest P.T. Barnum." When a fellow candidate threw out the latter epithet. Evans responded: "If I get the chairmanship, you shall be ruthlessly purged...