Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campus activist during his four years as an indifferent student at the University of Delaware. In fact, he now acknowledges that he participated in desegregation demonstrations "only in a very minor sense": black lifeguards at the swimming pool where he worked during the summer invited him to join in some picketing in Wilmington. Later, as a law student at Syracuse University, Biden avoided antiwar protests...
...sponsored by employers. Gradually, local regulatory boards began to discourage infant care, restrict nursery hours and place emphasis on a kindergarten or Montessori-style instructional approach. The nurseries became nursery schools, no longer suited to the needs of working mothers. During World War II, when women were mobilized to join wartime industry, day nurseries returned, with federal and local government sponsorship. Most of the centers vanished in the postwar years, and the Donna Reed era of the idealized nuclear family began...
...Wall Street investment house, or perhaps much more if he started his own consulting firm. But some think he may resist the big money and go into academia instead, possibly teaching at Harvard or Princeton while picking up hefty consulting fees on the side. If he does join a university, his classes should be popular on campus. This is one professor who will have plenty of true-life adventures to illustrate on the chalkboard...
...promise to spell out the rules of engagement under which the ships would be allowed to open fire in advance of any actual deployment. That deployment seems several weeks away. One factor inhibiting the Administration from hatching any quick, ambitious military plans is the reluctance of U.S. allies to join them. President Reagan promised to appeal for support at the Venice economic summit this week, but indications were that he would not get very...
...contingency forced the Soviet nations to in effect either agree to join hands with the U.S. or to commit themselves to go it alone, accelerating an antagonistic course which was already taking shape, historians...