Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan has praised them as "freedom fighters." But this motley band of rebels is best known by the label that their opponents, the Sandinistas, use: contras (counterrevolutionaries). In the 18 months since the contras began their organized military offensive, they have come to play a pivotal role in the Reagan Administration's campaign to put pressure on Nicaragua and check Soviet and Cuban influence in Central America...
...sponsorships ran $150,000 to $200,000 at most and were something less than exclusive. Montreal associated itself with 168 official products; Moscow signed up 200. Ignoring everything Baron de Coubertin had said about dignity, the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., found 381 buyers for the Olympic label, including an official chewing tobacco. By contrast, the L.A.O.O.C. has held down the number of sponsors to 30, but the charge is a minimum $4 million for each (Lake Placid collected $9 million total), and in most cases that represents just a down payment...
This sensitivity to schools could in turn contribute to solving the larger problems of teacher quality. For some time now, the average SAT's of education students have been among the lowest of any professional group. We call teachers professionals, but their paychecks label them dirt. Some politicians argue that pay grades--apprentice teacher to full teacher to senior teacher to master teacher--will superimpose a professional framework through competitive merit pay, but it is a travesty to suggest any instructor merits some of the wages currently doled out in schools. For many years, the brightest women and minorities entered...
...with the government's desire increase defense spending Eight percent went no for as to say they would refine to fight if Japanese were to be invaded. Now, after the tragedy, Prime Minister Nakasons of Japan continue to battle an image of himself or a "hawk" the worst possible label to incur in Japanese polities. And his national five-year defense plan, moderate in increases by any standards, is already behind schedule...
Sociology Department Chairman William Alonso says that Starr has avoided the current tendency in the field to follow a strictly statistical approach or to fit research into a rigorous structural approach. "He's more of a general social scientist than fitting a narrow label or discipline," he explains...