Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to have our membersdisplaces," Murphy said. "We think it's veryirresponsible on Harvard's part. For some reason,they have developed a new policy...
Well the first thing is that he is from Tennessee. Another reason is because he is seen as a moderate. While he is a good friend of NAACP President Benjamin Hooks, it isn't for certain that he could bring in Blacks. Baker could bring in some moderate Democrats to the fold...
...many at Brookline High, Harvard was the next rung on the striver's cursus honorum. Joe Kennedy, the President's father, who had moved to Brookline to launch his banking career, went to Harvard for its social benefits, and sent his sons there for the same reason. Academic matters were secondary. The social benefits of Harvard were a reason for Michael Dukakis not to go there. He believes deeply in meritocratic distinctions, which are blurred (if not reversed) by social influence. He went, instead, to the Quaker school Swarthmore, where his love for discipline would be rewarded. The school also...
...early 1970s. Michael Dukakis' great cause in this decade was no-fault automobile insurance. He waged a sustained campaign for this reform, which took endless litigation out of the tainted Massachusetts courts. It was a solid, valuable reform, imitated in other states, hard to dramatize, but for that reason amenable to sustained argument of the sort Dukakis is good at. On the other, emotional issues of the time, Dukakis voted "correctly" for a liberal. After all, in Massachusetts even Republican Governor Sargent signed a law challenging the constitutionality of the Viet Nam War. But Dukakis did not march or protest...
...impact will soon be felt at the supermarket, but it may not be too severe. The USDA estimates that retail food prices will rise no more than 5% this year. One reason: much of this year's grain shortfall will be made up from stocks set aside during past bountiful harvests...