Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CASUAL conversations, Joseph certainly does not seem like a loser. He is extremely well-read and intelligent; he hasn't lost his mind or his health--only his chance to be a part of mainstream society. Joseph's hardworking mother brought him up in Albuquerque, N.M. Had his high school offered him an education that measured up to his abilities, Joseph might have gone to college. Instead, he began reading on his own, skimping on his studies...
...cancer we call poverty has tightened its grip on a large and growing number of Black Americans. Unless we as a nation make a sharp break with the inadequate policies of the past--both Democratic and Republican alike--a very large number of Blacks will remain locked outside the mainstream of American society...
...Walter Mondale were to win office in 1984, the outlook for the Black poor still appears quite bleak. For the reinstatement of the traditional civil rights policies will probably not affect a large number of Blacks who will most likely remain below the poverty line, locked outside the mainstream of American society...
...trying to develop a sense of community and cohesion because minority graduate students are particularly alienated from the mainstream of undergraduate life." said Sherce Queen, a fifth-year graduate student and assistant head tutor in the Government Department...
Feldstein, a mainstream conservative economist who never accepted the most radical claims of the supply-side doctrine, joined the Administration in 1982. He was brought on board to re-establish credibility after the Administration's early predictions of supply-side prosperity and balanced budgets went wildly wrong. Philosophically, Feldstein agrees with Reagan and Regan that the spending side of the ledger is the place to reduce the budget deficit. But Feldstein maintains that if spending cannot be cut sufficiently because of defense needs or the growth of social programs, then taxes must be raised. Along with his Administration ally...