Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans ever got a chance to witness a convention; today, millions watch the spectacle on TV. As a result, though colorful detail is still an important element in good reporting, it is only the beginning of the reporter's search for what really happened. That search may mean bringing greater knowledge and understanding to a scene that the camera merely records, or seeking out the facts and drama not visible to the viewer: the behind-the-scenes action, the why of what is happening and, not least, the way in which each event relates to a larger sphere...
...applied for and received the money. Once the districts had the dollars, they discovered they could not find the economically disadvantaged children supposedly living in their districts and through a loophole in the wording of the law, began using the funds to finance programs for Educationally disadvantaged students. "You mean that if a kid's father is making $15,000 a year, but he is divorced and the kid is hung up and behind two years in reading, the district can use behind two years in reading, the district can use Title I money to help this student?" a reporter...
...adjusting the scanner, like a television cameraman, until it gave him a moving, living map of partially cloud-obscured plantation country northwest of Saigon. Under that cover was the target, a suspected troop concentration. Everything had to go right the first time. The slightest navigational error up here could mean a horrendous mistake on the ground...
More liberal use of the federal discount window, even at the rate of more than $2 billion a week desired by the Mitchell study, will mean a shift in the way bank credit is extended. It will not increase the overall money supply, just de-emphasize the Fed's buying and selling of Government securities to regulate the flow of money, which has not always been fully successful when the chips were down. It took several months during the 1966 credit crunch to improve bank lending by such means alone. "If the proposed revisions had been in effect," says...
When I see Black men being beaten in front of their women, I lose a bit of my manhood. When I think of how I'm not able to protect myself nor my little woman from the greedy, sadistic hands, mean cruel White hearts, and evil minds of the "White Devil," I lose a bit of my manhood and I shudder and hide my face in shame...