Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saw a whole bunch of separate groups working on separate issues, often with separate purposes," he says. "[The newsletter] was an attempt to bring people together...to figure out what we share, what the common values...
...example, Campos says several members of RAZA had migrant workers in their families, and that therefore the grape issue "started as something very emotional, especially for members of RAZA," he says. "Students saw us and saw how much we cared about the issue...
...saw a whole bunch of separate groupsworking on separate issues, often with separatepurposes," he says. "[The newsletter] was anattempt to bring people together...to figure outwhat we share, what the common values...
Luce possessed a kind of clairvoyance about history, a journalist's instinct but operating in a higher orbit than journalism usually achieves. Along with Hadden, he saw that America after the Great War was in a state of change that would create a natural audience for the kind of magazine they had in mind. The nation's cultural center of gravity was shifting. A newly emergent, restless urban middle class--often intellectually and socially insecure--was getting into business, making money, buying things...
...undisputed leader for nearly 40 years--was not a wholly contented man. He was unsuccessful in his marriages; intermittently estranged from members of his family; frequently dismayed by the directions in which his nation, and the world, were moving. But what most concerned him was the gap he always saw between his own actions and the high purposes against which he measured them. He achieved great power, wealth and fame, and he was by any measure one of the most influential figures in the nation. But Luce was not satisfied with conventional success of whatever magnitude. He had higher, perhaps...