Word: long
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--What a long, strange trip it has been...
...widely acceptable to denigrate rural Americans? The liberal Perspective, which would never apply derogatory labels to ethnic minorities or gays, thought nothing of calling rural Southerners "naive rednecks." It hasn't been that long since the Harvard Lampoon printed a public apology for being racially insensitive, but it has yet to apologize for a cover that depicted lazy, dirty Appalachians under the caption "Inbred and Brain Dead...
...said before, I don't mean to sound like an old fuddy duddy who'd rather walk than take a motor car or who'd rather write long, languishing letters than call (although at least the latter is true). I just think we've got to realize that some people like L.P.'s even if they're turning into musical neanderthals. C.D. players are kind of like car phones or answering machines with remote call-in--sure they're an improvement, an advance, a fine addition to any upwardly mobile life. But they're heartless. They force us to evolve...
...game like this, records and rankings go out the window," Caples added. "The motivation is there. It's a great position to be in. We can determine our own fate. As long as we stick to our game plan, play hard and don't let up for 70 minutes, I am very confident that we will do well...
Israeli politicians have long taken for granted American aid of $4 billion a year. Now, American Jews must warn Israel that such aid is in danger as long as ties to South Africa persist. Black members of Congress, who are ordinarily loyal members of the pro-Israel coalition, will bolt unless Israel cleans...