Word: formely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flag of the confederacy--once a badge of honor--has become a badge of hate. In North Carolina, school officials are facing a new form of civil disobedience. Junior high and high school students are pinning the flag to their apparel, much to the alarm of school administrators who fear the flag will increase racial tensions. Students who refuse to remove the flag are being kicked out of Carolina classrooms...
...time has come, we hope, for students to recognize that sexism is as insidious a form of elitism as racism or anti-semitism. When women are excluded from the clubs, they are excluded from the unparalleled resources of the clubs and from the "old boy" alumni contacts which the clubs foster. Exclusion, and the acceptance of exclusion trains students to believe that it's right--and natural--for men and women to dominate separate spheres. Separate but equal? Hardly...
...short, densely populated routes, Amtrak is riding highest of all. More than half its business comes from the Northeast corridor, where trains have surpassed air travel as the most popular form of mass transit. Business travelers on the Bosnywash circuit appreciate the convenience, the wide seats, the reliability in foul weather, and the chance to get some work done. "When you ride a train," says Chicago Bank Executive William McClintic, "you can sit back, relax and avoid the hassles of traffic and airports...
...winning entries and how they were packaged. The choice of a hot subject can be helpful; AIDS and TV evangelists were popular this year. Prizemanship strategies have even built up a genre of newspaper writing: the exhaustive multi-part investigation. "A lot of stories are handled now in series form that might have been handled in day- to-day coverage," says San Francisco Examiner Executive Editor Larry Kramer, a screening juror this year...
...start various service projects, so far these initiatives have failed. Last year a representative of Phillips Brooks House, the community service organization, visited a meeting of the council and persuaded the group that they would only be duplicating PBH's efforts, so the council is now trying to form a graduate chapter of the public service organization...