Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of those have a slightly greedy tone, the reason is that New Age fantasies often intersect with mainstream materialism, the very thing that many New Age believers profess to scorn. A surprising number of successful stockbrokers consult astrological charts; a yuppie investment banker who earns $100,000 a year talks of her previous life as a monk. Some millionaires have their own private gurus who pay house calls to provide comfort and advice. Big corporations too are paying attention. "The principle here is to look at the mind, body, heart and spirit," says a corporate spokesperson, who asks that...
...even though their sentiments may be similar to those of mainstream American teens, their dress, music and ideas certainly...
...Lewis Powell, the President last week selected the kind of jurist many of his pragmatic supporters felt he should have chosen at the start. Indeed, he picked the very man they had been urging from the beginning: Anthony Kennedy, a thoroughly experienced appeals-court judge noted both for his mainstream conservative principles and for the open-minded way he applies those principles on a case-by-case basis...
...because Reagan's economic attitudes are part of a larger ideological problem that has plagued him from the start. By every measure, the nation, while embracing Reagan himself, has never fully endorsed his brand of conservatism. It has liked him best when he adapted his views to the political mainstream...
...much the country cares about the rights of women. Fedders, the former enforcement director of the Securities and Exchange Commission, resigned two years ago after his divorce blew into a public furor when he confessed to beating his wife repeatedly during their 18-year marriage. But before the "mainstream" could dismiss John Fedders as an aberration, the Maryland Courts stepped in. Late last month, the state rewarded him for his actions--and dampened whatever satisfaction Americans take as members of a society that has progressed in the area of equal rights...