Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that Bush has no recognizable heritage is no reason to rule out an "ethnic" candidate as the second choice on the Democratic ticket, but the pundits are already saying Dukakis the Greek is minority enough. The Democrats need a vice president who is non-ethnic and who is non-Harvard, which will be hard, considering everyone in the party fits one of those two catagories...
...Harvard administration should allow for an immediate election for another reason--it would be on the terms it has set. In 1984 the administration won a federal suit with the NLRB forcing the union to enlarge its organizing area from the Medical Area's 700 workers to the entire campus's 4000. What was designed as a fatal blow to force the union to organize an area larger than it could handle turned into an organizing success--attracting wider attention and support for the cause...
...January 1988. Louisville. For a time, by astonishing coincidence, none of the city's eleven hospitals can accept critically ill or injured patients. Reason: available beds in intensive-care units cannot be filled because not enough nurses are on duty...
...rights," a legal concept dating back to the French Revolution. It permits artists to block the public display of their work in a defaced or modified form. Moral rights are also embodied in the Berne Convention, the international copyright agreement adopted by 76 countries, but the provision is one reason why the U.S. has never signed...
...America's struggle against drugs is indeed a war, then the nation's inner cities are the trenches. Ghettos have always been the main marketplace for narcotics, but never before has the drug trade been so pervasive or its repercussions so brutal. The primary reason is crack, the cheap and highly powerful cocaine derivative. The booming crack business has led to unprecedented violence by dealers fighting for their share of the market. Widespread addiction to the drug has helped further shred what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The mean streets of the inner city form...