Word: pied
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve years ago which concluded that ethnic ties and characteristics were strong and showed no signs of disappearing. Their book was one of the first to challenge the liberal creed that all the people whose grandparents had passed through Ellis Island were assimilating into one homogenized mass of apple pie-eating Americans...
...workers) and small enough to feel the benefits of a concession. Glazer and Moynihan neglect to mention the relative ease with which a state can co-opt and control an oppressed and potentially troublesome group once they are convinced they must fight for their own sliver of the pie rather than join ranks with other hungry people...
...unreal world of big-money defense contracts, the stakes are higher still. In Europe, Africa and the Middle East, uneasy rulers are channeling huge sums into sophisticated weapons systems, and American companies are fighting with each other and with foreign competition to obtain slices of the increasingly lucrative pie...
...jugglers, acrobats and tumblers-all to raise money for a pair of children's charities: the Central Remedial Clinic and the Variety Club of Ireland, dedicated to the support of blind and handicapped children. High point of the celebrity get-together? Low comedy, as MacLaine & Co. launched a pie-throwing exhibition in center ring. McClory, who collected $50,000 from his big-name bash, now hopes to bring in even more cash for kids by converting film of the day's events into a television special...
...economic threat. Says Harvard Psychologist Robert Coles: "The ultimate reality is the reality of class. Having and not having is the real issue. To talk only in terms of racism is to miss the point. Lower-income whites and blacks are both competing for a very limited piece of pie." Illustrating that point, Social Worker Jerry Carey of South Boston observes: "I know that there's no way that my sons will get to Harvard, even if they have good grades, because the admissions committee will throw the Irish out and pick the blacks. That's crazy. It's also...