Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand you hold a copy of the Wall Street Journal, and in the other your Harvard banner. It's the first quarter of the Yale game and you need a drink. But which to sacrifice...
...Wall Street Journal set the outer limits last summer by blaming the current South African unrest on the American protest movement. Hyperbolic flame-thrower Dinesh D'Souza followed in The New York Times by implying that those who support divestment from South Africa are in fact condoning mass extinction and, by obvious implication, persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union. That charge, in addition to being utterly absurd, lent a new, odious twist to anti-Semitic-baiting by the right...
...exclusive clubs in the U.S. Its members read like a Who's Who of American industry. Stock prices for General Motors, IBM, Exxon, AT&T, U.S. Steel and 25 other blue-chip companies make up the widely watched Dow Jones average. Last week the editors of the Wall Street Journal, who choose the Dow's members, reshuffled the club's roster. Added to the list were McDonald's, the fast-food giant, and Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro. Dropped from the index were American Brands, maker of Lucky Strikes, and General Foods, which produces Jell-O and other food products...
...change became necessary when Philip Morris bought General Foods. Philip Morris was a suitable replacement for General Foods, but then American Brands had to be dropped to avoid having two cigarette makers among the 30. The Journal editors also wanted to shift the index away from smokestack industries, which are overrepresented in the elite group. McDonald's provided a golden opportunity and reflected the continuing growth of the service sector in the economy...
...situation was brought into fresh focus last month when the New England Journal of Medicine reported significant falloffs in minority medical-school attendance since the civil rights fervor of a decade ago. In 1974 minority enrollment peaked at 10%, with blacks hitting a high of 7.5%. By 1983 minorities had slipped to 9.7%, blacks to 6.8%. A similar situation exists in some law schools...