Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although former students like Kuntz reject the notion of a link between race and grade inflation, there is universal acknowledgement that grades rose on campuses nationwide during...
...many alumni blasted Mansfield, calling his formulation of the link between race and grades racist...
...imaginative, not merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing as traces of obsessive effort...
...work was confirmed by the "fossil record" team, which went back to the source of the flawed mirror, a Connecticut plant now owned by Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. (At the time of the manufacturing mistake, the facility was part of Perkin-Elmer Corp.) Like archaeologists looking for the missing link, the optical sleuths pored over the blueprints and tools used to make the mirror. Eventually, they zeroed in on a complex device called an interferometer, which was used to measure the curve of the mirror's surface. They found that the instrument had been assembled incorrectly and that the mistake...
This wave of revisionist (i.e. politically correct) arguments shifted the focus of the discussion on the underclass from the problems of racial isolation and economic class subordination to discussions of Black achievement and Black pride. Sociologists and policy-makers who attempted to link the life in the ghetto to broader social problems were criticized for holding to "white middle class" social and behavioral norms. This unfortunate turn in the debate squelched hard-headed, liberal proposals--proposals that might have solved the underclass problem--for more than two decades...