Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about the same time, Americans were realizing the need to protect the natural environment, and for some of the same quasi-spiritual reasons, they discovered that old buildings had a level of craftsmanship and stylistic integrity seldom achieved in modern buildings and a patina that could not be faked. The upper classes had always prized antiques and reveled in the old. For the first time, the upwardly ambitious American middle class acquired that aristocratic penchant...
...sentence depended largely on how his recollections conformed to Maoist history, and so the simple act of remembrance becomes inherently suspenseful. More important, a contrast and an analogy are enforced by the close juxtaposition of past and present. The imperial past offered Pu Yi privilege at an awesome level; the imprisoned present demands denial at the meanest level. But each equally cramped Pu Yi's spirit, denied him his full humanity...
...were signed by Lorenzo, who critics suggest is responsible for many of Texas Air's woes. Few airline executives elicit as much personal enmity from the troops as he does. And high-level subordinates have not found it easy to deal with the workaholic chairman, who often telephones them late at night with probing questions. Tom Volz, a former Continental senior vice president who now runs Las Vegas-based Sunworld Airways, says Lorenzo is "more interested in new deals than food quality and cleaner planes...
...Brandeis Justice reported that Director of Health Services Dr. Harris Faigel dispensed so called "beta-blocker" propanolol, a common prescription drug, to 25 extemely jittery high school seniors retaking the SAT test. The group was selected for a high level of test-taking anxiety...
...funnel to business school begins at the college level, and undergraduate institutions aren't accepting as many Blacks," said the president of the Afro-American Student Union at Harvard Business School, Arnold J. Lewis, a second-year graduate student...