Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keylatch is named for the label applied tochildren whose parents both work, leaving them towear their house keys around their necks and spendseveral hours alone each day. They are called"latch key kids." The $12,000 program that Cruzhas directed for the past two years operatesduring the school year and summers in VillaVictoria, a Puerto Rican housing development inthe South...
Attendance at two Chinese Student Associationmeetings told me that I wasn't Chinese. But itwasn't until spring of senior year that I learnedan appropriate label for myself: Asian American. Ideclared East Asian Studies as my concentrationfreshman year, and was awakened to academics bythe late Professor Fletcher's course on power inthe Early Ch'ing Empire. Yet, only the opportunityto participate in a Dunster House seminar on AsianAmericans, finally offered this spring, allowed meto see myself. Approximately 40 students of Asiandescent crowded into a seminar meant for 10, readyto "discover the issues" together...
...like $28 print shirts have pushed sales to more than $700,000 in the firm's first eight months. Says Co-Owner Jaye Bernstein: "Our business has just exploded." Many companies that made their name in adult apparel are now moving into the children's market. Esprit, a popular label founded in San Francisco in 1971, began its Esprit/Kids line in 1982, and the division will account for some 20% of the company's projected 1986 sales of $800 million...
This represents a naive view of democracy, of the extent of U.S. power and of the nature of different regimes too easily swept up under the label "right-wing dictatorships" (or, with special enthusiasm, "tyrannies...
...urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration's effort to provide the guerrillas with $100 million in U.S. funding, a stand that prompted d'Escoto / to label the Cardinal a traitor...