Word: mainstreamers
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...conveniently forgotten that sad time in recent American history when Catholic ethnic immigrants—especially Italian Americans—were subject to violence and discrimination. It was a time when the expulsion of Southern European “inferiors” from this land was the objective of mainstream nativists in American politics, many of whom found moral support from the Puritan bigots of this university...
...case is sending ripples throughout the world of hedge funds, a stratum of high finance that has thus far been largely untouched by the post-meltdown regulatory scrutiny and populist outrage directed at mainstream banks. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in announcing the charges. Indeed. While many hedge funds wouldn't know what to do with inside information if they tripped over it - the strategy at quantitatively oriented shops often fixates on building better computer models - plenty of others ply their trade by working the phones and calling...
Colleagues remember the prominent critic of the California state court system as a “mainstream gadfly,” who frequently dissented at the law school’s faculty meetings...
...advice to offer young journalists, what would it be? The issue is not writing. It's what you write about. One of my favorite columnists is Jonathan Weil, who writes for Bloomberg. He broke the Enron story, and he broke it because he's one of the very few mainstream journalists in America who really knows how to read a balance sheet. That means Jonathan Weil will always have a job, and will always be read, and will always have something interesting to say. He's unique. Most accountants don't write articles, and most journalists don't know anything...
...Would she be in charge of helping Her Campus perpetuate the single standard of beauty touted by just about all fashion and women’s magazines? What if an applicant has a really grotesque sense of beauty, one that doesn’t conform to the mostly thin, mainstream, well-manicured version that Her Campus (so far) seems to support? (Yes, we mean, what if you think the applicant is ugly...