Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finance, he commands a handsome salary as a globe-trotting NBC vice president who negotiated the broadcast rights to the 1988 Olympic Games. But every so often, Gilbert is rudely reminded that for people like him, there are still some things success cannot provide -- simple things, like a taxicab. Late leaving for the airport to catch an important business flight, Gilbert stood on a busy avenue futilely hailing cab after speeding cab. Finally he phoned his secretary for assistance. She got one on her first attempt. Gilbert's secretary is white. He is black. "It's pretty hard to feel...
Statistics tell some of that story. The past decade has seen a 52% increase in the number of black managers, professionals, technicians and government officials. The gap between black and white median income is wider now than it was in the late 1970s -- largely because blacks did not recover from the last recession as completely as whites did. Still, roughly one-third of all black households have solidly middle-class incomes of $35,000 or more, compared with about 70% of all white households. Blacks manage the department stores that once rejected their patronage. They make decisions at corporations where...
...dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care and the arts. "The black middle class has not done enough to keep the door of opportunity open," Glover insists. "Many of them try to assuage their conscience with an annual check...
...questions of sobriety, sexual escapades and the sale of Government expertise. To the beleaguered nominee for Defense Secretary, the real issue is the motivation of his judges in the Senate, who he implied were hypocrites pursuing the partisan politics of personal pique. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators late in the evening who've had a few drinks . . . ((to)) vote on vital issues of nuclear deterrence?" Tower asked with rhetorical venom. "Is it an acceptable standard for Senators to accept honorariums, PAC contributions and paid vacations from special interests...
Small wonder that fashionable opinion in Washington is now having second thoughts about this sudden overdose of ethics. Take Bush, who in late January declared that his commitment to the highest ethical standards "is not, believe me, a fad or some passing fancy." Of course, this was before Tower began to crumble and it was discovered that Secretary of State James Baker owned an estimated $2.9 million worth of Chemical Bank stock while he was Treasury Secretary with policymaking influence over the treatment of the bank's shaky Third World loans. These days the President sounds less like a patrician...