Word: mainstreamed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a few economists are now outside even the center of the mainstream. Their proposals for increased taxes on upper incomes--instead of financial stringency in programs that help the poor--and for economic controls have not even been seriously debated. Of course these proposals are only short-term cures and even then only for inflation and economic slowdown. They could not begin to provide fulfilling work for more men and women, or to diminish the massive concentration of this nation's economic power in a few hands, or make a dent in the even greater disparity in wealth between...
...general, the avid eclecticism that marked Hirshhorn's collecting habits comes as a relief, despite the amount of rubbish. Too many museums collect in terms of a rigid historical theory; by reminding us of the innumerable and quirkish side channels away from the so-called "mainstream" of modern art, Hirshhorn has done the state a service. But this will only remain a virtue if the museum has generous funds to fill in the gaps; it would be fatal to treat it as a static monument to one man's taste...
...that labor and management can both contribute to legal-insurance funds, as they have long been permitted to do with pension and health plans. As a result, Hugh Duffy, former chief counsel of the House Special Subcommittee on Labor, predicts: "Prepaid legal services will now be in the mainstream of collective bargaining." So far, some 25 labor unions have persuaded employers to help set up and contribute to legal insurance funds. Some legal experts estimate that in the next few years, 70% of all Americans and 50% of all lawyers will be involved in group-insurance plans...
...chiefly concerned with their own personal lives. Says Senior Steve Ainsworth, 21, former editor of the Daily Bruin, the student newspaper at the University of California at Los Angeles: "The mood is, 'I'm here for me.' The kids are preoccupied with going into the mainstream of economic life...
...merger merger was financially, attractive to Radcliffe largely because Harvard absorbed all of the school's debts. But for Harvard's sake, the compromise neatly side-stepped the key issue--the total absorption of Radcliffe women into the Harvard mainstream, a situation many observes felt could only be brought about by the admission of equal numbers of both sexes...