Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assume these views point self-righteous fingers at groups such as the Naked Party, the Smash the Blood Sucking Oppressor Party and the party without a name. These three groups are the only ones who challenged the mainstream parties in last year's elections. Where are all of these "frivolous parties," my dear senators? Yes, the Naked Party was extreme. They were naked. But, Naked had several valid proposals including telephone voting and pay cuts for SG officers. The nameless party sought improvements in on-campus cable television programming and activities for on-campus students...
...opinion surveys, California voters favor, 2 to 1, an initiative on the June ballot that would dismantle bilingual classes and replace them with a year of intensive English before immigrants are absorbed into the mainstream. The measure, called English for Children, is sponsored by Ron Unz, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former G.O.P. candidate for Governor...
Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report...
Nevertheless, after having been the only newspaper in the country to support Commoner in 1980, The Crimson endorsed the mainstream Democrat Walter Mondale against Reagan...
...doubt very much that somebody who is out of the scientific mainstream and has no experience with current reproductive technology will do it," Gleicher said...