Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shifting barrier that can suddenly materialize, curtly reminding blacks that no matter how successful they may be, they remain in some ways second-class citizens. As black psychiatrist James P. Comer wrote in his family memoir, Maggie's American Dream, "Being black in America is often like playing your home games on the opponent's court...
Superficially, middle-class blacks already seem to be living that dream. Leon and Cora Brooks have spent more than a decade at IBM, where he is a dealer account manager and she is a senior personnel specialist. They have a comfortable home in the affluent and mostly black Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills; they have a Mercedes in the garage and a daughter at California State University at Northridge. Leon Brooks jokes, "We're a typical white family that happens to be black...
Eastern's 3,600 pilots pledged to honor the strike even though Lorenzo had appealed to them at midweek via a 20-minute video taped at his Houston home. Said Lorenzo: "If the pilots, the flight attendants and the noncontract employees support the picket line and don't show up for work, Eastern cannot survive." As the tape rolled, Lorenzo took out a new contract he was about to offer his pilots and signed...
...permission from a U.S. district court to order I.A.M. workers to take a day off with pay. Citing "significant amounts of vandalism" at Eastern facilities last month, Joseph Leonard, chief operating officer of the airline, said the carrier was concerned that if the angry union members were not sent home they would engage in sabotage...
...Louvaris, who Koskotas says made the deliveries to the Prime Minister. Pickups occurred weekly and amounted over the year to more than 3 billion drachmas ($20 million at today's rates). In addition, Koskotas claims he personally carried a total of half a billion drachmas ($3.3 million) to the home of a Deputy Prime Minister, Menios Koutsogiorgas. At the Bank of Crete half a dozen other PASOK leaders twice a month received briefcases filled with money totaling 1.5 billion drachmas ($10 million...