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Word: reflective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federated chain (Lazarus) and Allied Stores (Brown) both sell millions of dollars of Stevens products yearly with the help of millions of advertising dollars. Since so much of linen sales is done by mail, the relationship of advertising to Stevens products is clear: do not just passively reflect consumer preferences, they actively try to shape them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporate Conscience | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...duty of every citizen to serve his country. Yet in the past the selective draft has singled out the poor, minorities, and people without conneetions for service. A nation's army should reflect all of its citizens. The McCloskey bill, HR 2206, would solve the problem of inadequate amounts of people by requiring some service, either civilian or military from everyone between the ages of 18 and 24. Universal conscription would also give employment to the sector where it is most needed--teenage and early twenties," also, young people could learn skills in the army which would be impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reinstitution of Military Conscription | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...white which the aestheticians of the Black Aesthetic found so debilitating? Writing in the 1960's Hoyt Fuller suggested that "The young writers of the black ghetto have set out in search of a black aesthetic, a system of isolating and evaluating the artistic works of black people which reflect the special character and imperatives of black experiences." This was an important movement which attempted to excoriate the whiteness that blackened out souls and to fashion new ideals and idols of beauty. More importantly, the Movement sought to articulate the fact that Afro-American peoples were beautiful and capable...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

Though the 10,000 or so dissidents will play no direct role in negotiations, their views accurately reflect those of many union members who have not joined them. The national leadership feels that a big settlement would help quiet members' broad complaints about unsafe working conditions, compulsory overtime and mismanagement of pension funds. If Fitzsimmons settles for too little, he risks handing the dissidents a major arguing point in future struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Guidelines Face a Rough Ride | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...This prompted Carter to depart from his prepared response in order to include "the Palestinians" among those who would benefit from "the state of peace for this region." Carter also assured Sadat that an Israeli-Egyptian agreement would only be part of "a comprehensive peace, a peace that would reflect the legitimate needs of all those who have suffered so deeply during the last 30 years of conflict, enmity and war." This is a point that Carter has been stressing with increasing frequency. Later, in his address to Egypt's parliament, he again endorsed linkage by saying that "there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Final, Extra Mile | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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