Word: reach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Birth. More than half of all black infants are born out of wedlock -- and in the inner cities, that figure can reach...
...these issues, the rhetoric of Michael Dukakis and George Bush is virtually interchangeable. Both candidates shun the word Underclass; neither accepts the word's implication that there are Americans who cannot even reach the first rung of the economic ladder. Such linguistic prissiness and ideological timidity make addressing the problem even more difficult. As for solutions, the candidates echo each other. Bush: "A job in the private sector is the best antipoverty program that has ever been invented." Dukakis: "Full employment is the most important human-services program we have...
...intense need for response explores human, and especially male, needs more than it allows Bogosian to satirize societal convention. For Bogosian, the lunacy and sadness of modern life come from the roles we are forced into playing. In depicting some of these roles, he captures a common desire to reach out, to be saved...
Aylwin said in a victory speech: "We reiterate our proposal to reach agreement with the armed forces on the terms of an institutional political change that would result in free elections quickly, and in a congress totally and freely elected...
...making this decision our administration seemed to have weighed the importance of the consequences and determined that keeping the Yard clean is more important than allowing some of the University's publications to reach their Freshman audiences. The Civil Liberties Union of Harvard believes that in our society freedom of expression is one of our most important freedoms. Within the University in particular, the value of the flow of ideas assumes central importance...