Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rush to rebuy? For one thing, the price is right. Since the Dow Jones industrial average began sliding from its peak of 1,052 in January, the shares of many companies have fallen to what corporate officers regard as unreasonably low levels. Thus company treasurers are scrambling to buy up shares that they can use for several purposes. Among them...
...quickie marriage. "The more we get into the story and the characters," says Producer Joe Manetta, "the more they're writing, 'Please God, get them married. They're so right for each other.' " The couple probably will marry, but the network is hardly likely to rush the wedding. The Secret Storm, after all, is sustained by forbidden loves. And, as Chief Writer Gillian Houghton admits in a wry commentary on present-day America, "it's difficult to find one these days...
...town, check out Hot Tuna and Procul Harum. And Otis Rush is at Joe's Place...
Some blacks charge that white feminists have already shown evidence of unconscious racism. Althea Scott, a Los Angeles radiology technician who tries to work with feminists to "keep a dialogue going," nevertheless demands to know "how a liberated woman can rush to a meeting leaving her black maid at home to look after the children, get there and look around and ask, 'But where are all our black sisters?' " Editor Lewis sees the Women's Lib movement as nothing more than "a family quarrel between white women and white men." She cautions that outsiders who interfere...
Even students have been known to agree with this ridiculous argument. Never mind that academic freedom is subverted every day in the rush for tenure. Never mind that advancement is based not on merit but on the friends one makes among the Senior Faculty. Never mind that the Administration arbitrarily doles money out of a budget which is kept secret for no apparent reason. Never mind that academic freedom does not have to mean professor who willingly talks with undergraduates. Never mind that only wealthy students need apply...