Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what went wrong. After all, it was only a year and a half ago that Congress approved $100 million in aid to the rebels. Some cited the Iran-contra affair. Others said political expediency had come into play. "This is an election year," said one contra booster, "and the plain fact is that there is not resounding ((public)) support...
Advertisements are necessary to keep television stations solvent so that they can broadcast more hockey games. But creating commercial breaks in ordinarily fluid games is artificial and just plain annoying. And that reduces sports to one long excuse for a commercial...
Instead of demanding a candidate with a vision, we might more sensibly appreciate some of the candidates under our noses who merely have plain old vision and who see clearly that no comprehensive view of America is likely to encompass its most troubling issues: the uses of wealth and power, the components of education, the poor, the homeless, the aged, the ill. We are at a point in this country where all the visions, liberal and conservative, have come and gone, and we are left standing among the quite specific and various problems that those visions either created or failed...
...point out, any principal can raise test scores and cut disciplinary problems by tossing out the troublesome low achievers. But this hardly represents a solution to a community's problems. Rather, it just moves those problems from the classroom onto the street, where the dropouts drift into trouble or plain despair. "In many cases the school was the most stabilizing factor in their lives," says Alcena Boozer, head of an outreach program for dropouts in Portland, Ore. "Then that's gone, and nothing's there...
...decade. A movement that had scorned bourgeois hierarchization and centralization throughout its history eventually reached the critical mass of a congenital inability to control and unify its own constituent groups, from radical Maoists to feminists to Black Panthers to Hell's Angels to just plain street crazies...