Word: myriads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Completely absorbed in the struggle for survival, Black Greeks have no time to merely write books about the "myriad of social pathologies" plaguing the Black community, including teen pregnancy, drug abuse and illiteracy. We take an active stance. We get things done. And though we are open to those seeking information, we have adopted a policy similar to that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring...
...their bourgeois and working-class parents' hard-won income, on the annual "cakewalk"-type dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political and social reason why Harvard College should extend its imprimatur to Black Greeks and no academic reason either...
...depressed earnings were just one sign of Wall Street's myriad woes. Drexel Burnham Lambert, the junk-bond pioneer, said last week it plans to sell its retail brokerage business, which trades for small investors, and concentrate on large institutional clients. That move and cutbacks in other divisions will slash Drexel's payroll of 9,000 employees by about one-third. In a candid statement, Drexel said "adverse publicity" about its legal problems had helped drive it from the retail market. Earlier this month the company settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit by agreeing to fire its indicted junk...
Realizing the momentous task ahead, FSLIC officials have made an attempt to become more savvy in their dealmaking. The agency's central-region division has taken over three blue-carpeted floors of a sleek office building in north Dallas, and is opening a ground-floor showroom to hawk its myriad properties. The 15-member sales staff is augmented by 100 private contractors and real estate agents who work for fees and commissions...
Unfortunately, in the myriad conflicts between principles and money, there is no obvious place to draw the line. I still can't decide on which side my Princeton Review work falls. But if I ever save enough money, maybe I'll quit...