Word: matters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much easier for a Black to grow up playing basketball or football. He is encouraged, as a matter of fact, because the only Blacks he sees on TV are slam-dunking or running for touchdowns. To play football, all that is needed is a field (any street will due) and a football. To play basketball, only a ball and a hoop are needed...
...good students of politics know, it's not the numbers which matter but the public's perception of the numbers. And it seems now as though the Kennedy School, in its attempt to divert attention from the political successes of one of its former lecturers, has adopted a "new direction" that is nothing but a cloak with which to disguise the fact...
...more practical terms, Bok noted that a school might be tempted to tenure--or funnel more lab space and research money to--a junior professor because he was working on a "matter of major commercial importance" that might prove lucrative...
...whether the near-loss last November made her nervous, Graham noted that most liberal voters favored Councillor David E. Sullivan because they thought he was the most threatened of the incumbents they supported. In addition, she said, "I do have a bloc of solid support that follows me, no matter what...
Even so, legislatures are coming under increasing pressure to ban dirty dialing. In April Congress banned the transmission to minors of obscene or indecent material for commercial purposes. Federal courts in New York and California promptly struck down the portion of the law applying to merely indecent matter (messages are deemed obscene if they discuss sexual activity in a clearly offensive manner, while an indecent recording might include nothing more than strong language...