Word: seene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...service plan which guarantees your thesis will be finished within two days. Self-service prices are $8 per hour and 95 cents for the first three pages. There is a 50-cent charge for each additional page. "Since mid-February people have been doing drafts, but I myself have seen no major increase in the number of theses being printed," said employee Eric E. Wilinski. Kinko's has three Macintosh stations and one laser printer...
Statistics tell some of that story. The past decade has seen a 52% increase in the number of black managers, professionals, technicians and government officials. The gap between black and white median income is wider now than it was in the late 1970s -- largely because blacks did not recover from the last recession as completely as whites did. Still, roughly one-third of all black households have solidly middle-class incomes of $35,000 or more, compared with about 70% of all white households. Blacks manage the department stores that once rejected their patronage. They make decisions at corporations where...
...about $200,000 annually. But more than once while she was sorting clothes in the laundry room of the luxury apartment house in which they have lived for eight years, Patricia has been approached by white residents who have tried to hire her as a maid. Her husband has seen white residents close the elevator door in his face when he tried to board. Evidently they took the well-dressed 38-year-old Grayson, one of the highest- ranking officials in New York, for a mugger. "It makes me sizzle," he says, "because it means that no matter what...
...result of this outpouring of pride, black colleges have seen their endowments rising. The United Negro College Fund reported a record $44.1 million in contributions for its past fiscal year. Bill Cosby's announcement in November that he would donate $20 million to Spelman College, the Atlanta institution from which his daughter graduated, was another dollar sign of support from black parents...
...tried to avoid stirring hard feelings about their new investments. In the U.S. they have formed joint ventures that include American investors. And in Australia companies like Mitsubishi have pledged millions of dollars to upgrade meat-processing plants, which will provide more jobs. The new cowboys want to be seen as pardners, not rustlers...