Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importance to blacks-affirmative action, teen-age unemployment, the black underclass-are hardly discussed by white candidates. Says Max Palevsky, a liberal activist in Los Angeles: "The Democrats have lost their way and become a not too articulate reflection of the Republicans. Instead of sweeping these issues under the rug, Jackson is lifting the rug...
...Mister, please, Excuse me sir. You must pay me more." The rug salesman is near pleading on his knees, or at least he pretends he will go that far. "I have babies at home. You must pay me more...
Dreben has been at work for a number of years on reinterpreting several 20th century figures in analytic philosophy, a field "which has invented a false history of itself," says Putnam. Dreben, he says, "is lifting the rug up to see what actually happened...
...Islamic fervor of the Shi'ite newcomers worries the more tolerant Sunnis. Posters of Khomeini now hang incongruously next to credit-card signs on shop windows, while ever growing numbers of women wear head scarves. An edgy rug merchant no longer offers browsers sherry, but instead asks, "Iced tea?" The beverage arrives laced with whisky...
...group has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 worth of goods, including musical instruments, jewelry, two computers, a snow blower and an oriental rug worth $25,000 in Newton, according to Detective Walter L. Boyle...