Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diego show lower grade-point averages for Chinese-, Korean- and Japanese- American students whose families speak primarily English at home compared with those whose families do not. The New York Times has reported that a Chicago study of Asian Americans found third-generation students had blended more into the mainstream, had a lower academic performance and were less interested in school...
...that "all kids should have access to cultural literacy, not just an elite few." He is particularly worried about disadvantaged students, who, he says, are not likely to get such training at home and, without careful teaching in school, may miss the opportunity of being absorbed into society's mainstream...
Organizations that traditionally offer aid and support to minorities, such as civil rights groups and the church, have been sluggish in acknowledging the epidemic. For them AIDS presents a disturbing dilemma: the disease threatens to increase racial discrimination and further distance blacks and Hispanics from full participation in mainstream society. "We don't want to get to the point," says Dr. Reed Tuckson, public health commissioner of Washington, "where people say to any black, 'You can't come into my restaurant, and you damned sure can't come into my swimming pool...
...what seemed groundbreaking in 1971 has become mainstream, even slightly dated, the reason is that Follies profoundly influenced much of what followed. The show remains at once a brilliant pastiche and a prescient farewell to a style of musical that became the most popular form of theater in history but that no one seems willing or able to write anymore. The guts of the story, as in the first version, are plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What...
...disconcerting gyrations of the mainstream stocks, which are heavily played by institutional investors, have inspired many private investors to march to a different ticker. They prefer to find lesser-known companies whose stocks are undervalued or potential earnings overlooked. But to arrive at a hot property before Wall Street professionals is a feat that requires lots of homework, constant vigilance and a cool head. Says Investor Jeffrey Solomon, a hardware-sales representative based in Great Neck, N.Y., who carries a hand- held stock monitor at all times and studies charts and newsletters every night: "The astute investor can beat money...