Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...historian Harold Cruse observed that "the Negro intellectual [was] a retarded child" whose thinking was still committed to mimicry and racial integration. Well, it is now 1985 and things have changed considerably--they're worse! Let us for example consider Harvard. Here we have one of the most prestigious collection of invisible minds north of Yale's Afro-American Cultural Center. Yet this obvious fact conceals a deeper truth. Unlike the principal protagonist of Ellison's novel Invisible Man, their invisibility is not due primarily to the refusal of others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse...
...most avid supporters concede that there should be some limits on MDMA. They hope to persuade the Government to place Ecstasy in a Schedule III classification, joining restricted drugs like codeine. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Lester Grinspoon: "The law would still have what it needs, but it wouldn't retard the kind of research we need...
...next time the Media big wigs call Reagan's idea lunatic, or, like the new Soviet leader Gorbachey, characterize "as fantastic the arguments used to substantiate the militarization of outer space," they might want to think, twice. Having spent," they might want to think twice. "Ron the Retard" has gotten the Soviets in Geneva ready to cry "uncle." The Russian desire for concessions in space can easily translate into American leverage with already-deployed weapons--on the cheap...
...nothing is done, the shortfall will rise from $175 billion in fiscal 1984, which ended Sept. 30, to $210 billion in the current financial year and only slightly less in 1986. And these calculations assume renewed growth in the economy that the deficits themselves could all too easily retard. For example, a major cause of the current slowdown is the excess of U.S. imports over exports, estimated at a gargantuan $130 billion this year; this trade deficit is aggravated by the budget deficit, which keeps U.S. interest rates and the value of the dollar artificially high...
...works for the young, dating back to Zlateh the Goat in 1966. Without the original illustrations, his fictions stand revealed as something more than mere bedtime stories. Many are informed by Freudian insights; tale after tale demonstrates a strong desire to prod the audience-and in some small way retard or push forward the wheels of history...