Word: neutering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Frau Hoffmann offered to buy him a gift, he suggested a rhinoceros-hide dog whip like the one Alois had used long ago. There was every reason to agree with the appraisal of Hitler offered by the wife of an early follower: "I tell you, he is a neuter...
Other analysts read the elevation of a political neuter like Jiang as a signal that the succession battle between conservatives and liberals is not over. "He's manageable, and he'll serve as a placeholder until this power struggle is sorted out," said an Asian diplomat in Beijing. Still other observers thought Jiang owed his new job to a very recent success: his skillful "big lie" campaign aimed at convincing many Chinese that no civilian massacre ever happened...
Such send-them-a-message primary votes did not end with Wallace. In a sense, Jackson supporters are registering a protest against efforts to neuter the Democratic Party so it can compete in a conservative era. It is not accidental that Jackson's two primary opponents, Dukakis and Gore, are post-liberal politicians who have built their careers around competence and mastery of complex subjects rather than ideological appeal. The almost willful blandness of these two white Democrats is a form of protective camouflage designed to help them win in November, if nominated. These sober strategies seem pallid to many...
...admit that they have openly discouraged girls, arguing as one Midwestern superintendent did that scarce computing resources ought to be given to the boys because they "need to know about computers for their future careers in engineering." Usually the cues are more subtle. Jo Sanders, co- author of The Neuter Computer, notes that teachers will often make eye contact with a boy when they start talking about computers, as if they assume the subject is intrinsically interesting only to males...
Still, the push for computer equality seems to be getting results. When members of the Neuter Computer team tested their ideas in schools in Vermont, Nebraska and California, they raised computer use among the girls from 26% to 48% in five months. By contrast, in the control group at a Texas school where no special efforts were made, participation by girls dropped during the same period from 14% to 10%. Says Author Sanders: "You must target girls specifically. Otherwise, it's business as usual...