Word: rationalization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, Weiner should ration self-pity out a bit more strictly. Though it may be true, as he says, that "it hasn't been easy being Jewish during the past few months"--and I think, as an American Jew, I know what he means--it's been a good deal more difficult being Palestinian, being Lebanese, or for that matter, being Israeli. Scott A. Rosengberg...
...book is autobiography? Probably a good deal. Generally, the more one learns about novelists, the more one realizes how little they make up from scratch. Those who believe in fiction, however, will find such matters of secondary interest. Will Knott, who sketches his surroundings on the backs of K-ration boxes, speaks to William Wharton's ideal reader when he says that his drawing "makes things more real; at the same time, not so real." -By R.Z. Sheppard
...people are expecting "something" to happen. Life has become too joyless and humiliating for the average Iranian to allow for any attachment to the status quo. All basic commodities are supposed to be rationed. In fact, rationing is an excuse for black-marketeering. Clergymen in charge of militiamen's committees run the rackets. Their agents sell a pack of cigarettes at $5, about five times the official price, under the counter. Car owners, restricted to 40 liters (10.56 gal.) of gasoline a month, pay about $21 for an extra 20-liter (5.28 gal.) ration coupon, a hefty addition...
This liberalization thesis is clearly ridiculous when one considers that Blacks in the United States, although better off than their counterparts in S.A., have been historically oppressed. In fact, the ration of Black median family income to white median family income in the U.S. has declined from 61 percent in 1970 to 56 percent in 1979. Most of the drop occurred in the middle of the supposedly pro-Black Carter Administration...
...years 1948 onwards in the 1982 Economic Report of the President. December 1981 was the month of the highest unemployment with 15.7 percent of all Blacks unemployed. Finally, the ratio of Black to white unemployment rose from 1.8 in 1975 to 2.3 in 1979, and both ration are higher than the ratios of the late 40s and early...