Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think so. I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it. The pencil has only to be ) allowed to be used. In human terms, the success of our work should not have happened...
Granted, perestroika is crucially different in that it goes hand in hand with profound political change. Maybe the plane's engines can really be repaired in mid-flight, as the unreassuring metaphor has it. But it will be an arduous process, requiring much more than injections of cash...
...image is arresting, perhaps too much so: a white hand and a black hand, both denim-clad and handcuffed together at the wrists. For Italy's Benetton, the ubiquitous purveyor of knitwear, the photo seemed ideal for its long- running ad campaign stressing harmony among the races. Ironically, the giant retailer now finds itself accused of racism. "Handcuffs do not convey brotherhood," says Donald Polk, president of the New York Urban League, which has been flooded with complaints about the ad from those who feel it depicts a black man under arrest. Says Vittorio Rava, Benetton's worldwide advertising head...
...other hand, stay-at-home mothers, who still make up one-third of all U.S. women with children under 18, feel their status has been depreciated by feminism. Sighs Dabney McKenzie of Montgomery, who describes herself as both a "feminist" and a "typical Southern housewife": "It's almost as if there's a caste system of employment, and motherhood is down there at the bottom...
Accounts from students with first-hand dealings with the College's Administrative Board suggest that some of the Board's policies discourage students from voicing complaints and may violate their First Amendment rights, members of the Civil Liberties Union of Harvard (CLUH) said...