Word: mainstream
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...think the numbers 69 and 15 speak forthemselves," said Sperling. "Dukakis and Bentsenare in the mainstream of America that believes infurthering civil rights. Bush and Quayle are outon the right. There is no reason to believe anyAmerican would want taxpayers' money to go to aninstitution that discriminates...
...versus them." The lines they have tried to draw have been stark: the poor, unarmed taxpayer doing battle with the evil giant, Labor, and his oppressive and omnipotent ally, state government. In short, the repeal movement has tried to paint a portrait of labor as out of the mainstream--they have tried to make the ludicrous case that the interests of organized labor in this state should no longer be part of the general concerns of the community...
...winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature were once more caught off guard. Naguib who? The answer: Mahfouz, a 76-year-old Egyptian novelist, playwright and film writer. If the choice was predictably unpredictable, the selection procedure seemed familiar. The Swedish Academy again paddled out of the mainstream, this time heading up the Nile to honor the first Arabic writer in the 87-year history of the prize...
Ceasar L. McDowell, one of three special issue editors for the journal, said that "It's easy for Blacks to talk about racism and its effects by themselves, but this puts racism right in the hands of readers. It reaches a 'mainstream.'" McDowell is a 1988 graduate of the Graduate School of Education and a professor at Boston College...
...also was faulted in the Harris poll for his response to Bush's offensive. Fifty-six percent agreed with the statement, "He seems not to know how to defend himself against the serious charges Bush has made about him on crime and on being a liberal out of the mainstream of American life...