Word: ralph
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Though many educators agree with Bennett's latest broadside, it stirred angry reactions. Said Ralph Robinett, administrator of bilingual education in Dade County, Fla.: "It is the old story of the power structure being out of tune with the ethnic makeup of the community." Nathan Quinones, a Hispanic and chancellor of New York City's public schools, where 86,000 students are in bilingual programs, was quietly unhappy. Bennett's emphasis on English, he said, "implies that if you do anything other than what is professed by Bennett . . . you may not be American...
...group. Among the new lawmakers are as many as 15 millionaires, compared with only one in 1978. The wealthiest: Georgia Republican Patrick Swindall, with minimum assets of $1.1 million, not including his home. The tabulations were the idea of Mark Green, head of the Democracy Project and a longtime Ralph Nader associate. Congressmen spent an average of $459,344 to get elected, and of that sum an average of $50,329 came from their own pockets. This "congressional plutocracy" worries Green, who argues that diverse democracy cannot be represented adequately by a "one-class Congress." His solution: using tax money...
...role model and have them turn out to be tainted," complained Gladys Roost, 80, a Dodger fan in Los Angeles. Shirley Murphy, 33, a secretary in Baltimore, agreed. "It is a damn shame that these guys can't depend on their talent to see them through," she said. Declared Ralph Bass, 63, a Texas Ranger booster: "Making that kind of money, they ought to set a better example...
Consumer advocates respond that insurers are pushing rates higher than necessary. Last month Ralph Nader and Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the insurance industry is illegally boycotting some businesses. "What we are witnessing," said Hunter, "is a manufactured crisis intended to bloat insurer profits and reduce victims' rights...
...this breeds a shadow society where traditional values are scarce and violence is promiscuous. For young black men, violence can become a warped form of self-assertion, a kind of "I kill, therefore I am." Snuffing out another life perversely affirms their own. Almost 40 years ago, Ralph Ellison wrote in Invisible Man about violence as a way for black men to assert their existence to themselves: "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish...