Word: promotionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For ten years no one officially questioned the Malones' self-proclaimed blackness. Then in February the twins were put on a list of blacks among firemen proposed for promotion to lieutenant. The list went to fire commissioner Leo Stapleton. He knew the Malones were the department's only identical twins...
Promotion Director: Ellen W. Oppenheim
Such protesters feel that the special nature of Catholic colleges resides more in the promotion of spiritual values generally than in strict adherence to papal guidelines. Says Sister Dorothy Ann Kelly, president of the College of New Rochelle, a women's school in New York: "If the religious nature of...
Pursuing the same strategies that worked so well in Howard Beach, they were able to get Governor Mario Cuomo to appoint Abrams as a special prosecutor for the case. But instead of cooperating with Abrams, the three--probably because they were aware that the case was a hoax--refused to...
Promotion Director: Ellen W. Oppenheim