Word: populares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fight are high. Even as growth in fast-food sales (1987 U.S. total: $56 billion) is slowing, pizza purchases are booming. Americans will spend an estimated $15 billion on pizza this year, more than twice what they spent just five years ago. As pizza has become more popular, the chains have seemingly sprinkled their outlets on every street corner: Pizza Hut, the largest, has more than 5,400 outlets in the U.S. and 6,200 worldwide. Even McDonald's has test-marketed a pie, McPizza. With so much competition, "it's not enough anymore just to have the best pizza...
HOWEVER. Jackson doesn't stack up very well in a comparison with Eisenhower, lke was a tremendously popular and well-known war hero who had demonstrated his administrative abilities--first as the commander of the allied troops in the European Theater during World War II, and later as head of NATO troops...
...1960s, a popular adage was "Never trust anyone over 30." Today, not only do activists trust their elders, they work along side them, as student support for the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni/ac Against Apartheid attests. Student activists working in coalition with adults is an indication of the strength of moral purpose that motivates those advocating divestment, not a sign of weakness in the campus movement...
DIVESTMENT activists have received criticism from both the left and the right for their use of moderate tactics. The fringe left often advocates violence, and hates to see the possibility of a violent popular front movement forestalled; the right simply hates to see divestment activists gaining political legitimacy. Divestment activists have learned that blood doesn't need to be spilled to call attention to the injustice of the University's policies...
...think it's very clear that among the undergraduates, the softer kind of Psych is much more popular," says one professor who asked to remain anonymous. "I would like to see there be more people going into the cognitive science track...