Word: hatchings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deere & Co. listened to protests and pulled catalog ads for a "schizophrenic" power mower, putting in its place a public service ad ; that read, "The most shocking thing about mental illness is how little people understand about it." Wordstar took "loony bin," "booby hatch" and "funny farm" out of its thesaurus list of synonyms for "institution...
...support of Hatch and other conservative Republicans had an easy explanation: her strong probusiness credentials. And if they could push through her nomination, the conservatives would have a large chit to call in from the new Administration. The Democrats on the committee, however, were caught in a painful bind. After the Anita Hill debacle, they desperately wanted the Baird confirmation to go smoothly. They also did not want to embarrass the new President. But after so many tainted Attorneys General, they were determined to confirm someone with an unblemished record...
...Moseley-Braun and Dianne Feinstein, who owed their election in some measure to her. Here sat some of the same members who had been lambasted for their handling of Hill, eager for the chance to display their elaborate courtesy and newfound sensitivity. Here was Hill's chief tormentor, Orrin Hatch, praising Baird's competence, her record as a corporate lawyer, knowing full well that for his conservative purposes Baird was the best candidate he could hope for, and if he saved her job she owed...
Luckily, item 9 offered an escape hatch. You can tell Law School Admissions Services, the Pennsylvania firm that administers the LSAT, to leave your ethnic description out of score reports. This meant, I thought, that I could help LSAS's statisticians get an accurate picture of the law school applicant pool without signing up for special consideration that I don't deserve. My negative answer to 14C, which asks, "Would you describe yourself as someone who comes from a low-income family?" should have eliminated me from such consideration altogether...
...packets came anyway. James M. Vaseleck, deputy corporate counsel for Law Services, told me that schools use his firm's database--which includes ethnic descriptions even of those students who, by using the escape hatch, ask that their ethnic descriptions not be used--to pick out "targeted pools." The only real way to keep your ethnicity out of the admissions process is to skip item...