Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Prejudice of the quiet, subliminal kind doesn't flow from the same place as hate. All you have to do to be infected is look around: at the top of the power hierarchy-filling more than 90% of top corporate-leadership slots and a grossly disproportionate share of managerial and professional positions-you see white men. Meanwhile, you tend to find minorities clustered in the kind of menial roles-busing dishes, unloading trucks-that our parents warned were waiting for us too if we didn't get our homework done...
Alexander's rivals have expressed concern about what they call his "stealth campaign." For the past two years, he has built quiet inroads among Republican activists in 500 cities nationwide through a monthly cable-TV show called The Republican Neighborhood Meeting. Meanwhile, Alexander has assembled an impressive campaign and fund-raising staff, including six of the past eight Republican national finance chairmen...
...potentially dangerous gimmick that would make it harder for government to use its spending power to soften recessions, the President tried to distinguish his opposition to the amendment from his support for "the impulses that are giving rise to it." He also pursued a low-key campaign of quiet calls to wavering Democrats, offering them a chance to sit down with Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Budget Director Alice Rivlin to work through the numbers. Says one White House adviser: "The last thing Senator Conrad wanted was the President's calling him up and pressuring...
...taking drugs to instant tranquillity." But he's not the sort to sit back and smell the royalties. "This album was a make-or-break thing for me," he says, "because I had to get off my backside and do something. I don't want to settle for a quiet life...
...collecting eggs to swallow / whole, hoarding their shapes in my long body / I am the snake that lies quiet, still...