Word: overtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while trying to reach beyond it. Robertson presented himself as a corporate executive and university president; Jackson presented himself as a diplomat-negotiator who had brought back hostages, kept factories and farms from closing, and transcended racial divisions. Robertson gave us a right-wing populism that had shed the overt racism of George Wallace's campaigns. Jackson gave us a left-wing populism that had gone beyond the black base of his 1984 effort...
...From the sound of it, Harvard has benefited from Yale's mistake," said Lucille Dickus, the president of Local 34, Yale's support staff union. "There was much more immediate overt opposition from the Yale administration thanthere is at Harvard...
...erupt when white homeowners feel threatened. Neighborhood segregation in northern cities is the most stubborn remnant of racial division in America. Often the bias is subtle. But on the front line are families such as the Sleds and the Scotts, whose experiences are shard-sharp examples of how overt and brutal racism in the U.S. can still...
...Howard Beach section of Queens, but in every segregated neighborhood in the nation, which means pretty much everywhere. In addition, discrimination based on class distinctions is no less noxious than that based on racial ones. The Underclass reels under a double hit: covert racial biases and overt class ones...
...best to hold social spending to a minimum. In fact, Reagan went so far with his budget cutting that his attempts have backfired on him and his conservative colleagues. Even though conservatives now have a louder voice in the Republican Party, the party's overt reaction has been to move closer to the center this year than it ever would have dreamed...