Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that an outsider's eye is always more apt to see things that the insider doesn't notice anymore," she says, adding that it was only through politics that she was able to understand the city's problems...
...this, and see the Harlem beneath the cliches, beyond its familiar notoriety as a graveyard for Great Society programs. True, the place is not what it was during Harlem's toniest decades, when swells partied at the Cotton Club (now defunct) and Joe Louis stayed at the Hotel Theresa (today an office building). Nor is Harlem what it may become in a looming decade of gentrification and white encroachment. But it is, at its best, a community that radiates warmth to outsiders who dare to embrace it. During Sunday service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Pastor Samuel Proctor greets white...
...move comes none too soon for SmithKline, which has suffered from declining Tagamet sales as the once revolutionary drug faces increased competition. Industry experts see the two companies as a good match. Beecham, which also makes Brylcreem, has built strong European markets, while SmithKline prevails in North America and Japan...
Experts tracking the cause and effect are coming to see how progress has carried hidden costs. "Technology is increasing the heartbeat," says Manhattan architect James Trunzo, who designs "automated environments." "We are inundated with information. The mind can't handle it all. The pace is so fast now, I sometimes feel like a gunfighter dodging bullets." In business especially, the world financial markets almost never close, so why should the heavy little eyes of an ambitious baby banker? "There is now a new supercomputer that operates at a trillionth of a second," says Robert Schrank, a management consultant...
...children, of freedom and fantasy and kids teaching kids to play jacks, is collapsing under the weight of hectic family schedules. "Kids understand that they are being cheated out of childhood," says Edward Zigler at Yale. "Eight-year-olds are taking care of three-year-olds. We're seeing depression in children. We never thought we'd see that 35 years ago. There is a sense that adults don't care about them...