Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor and desperate grow poorer and more desperate as the rich get richer. Children have children. Old , industries grow feeble. Families dissolve. The waste. Illiteracy--here, where everyone is supposed to go to college. Ignorance, televised superstition, intolerance, race hatred, the discarding of the past. Almost every cause of shame is a consequence of the freedom that we celebrate above all things. Take the evil with the good, but keep the freedom; that's our motto. The trick is to spread the bounty of freedom around to correct the evil. When there is an effort to do that...
...cutbacks in Government programs designed to help them, but many are doing just fine anyway. Black Enterprise magazine, in its annual ranking of the top 100 black-owned companies, reported last week that the group's total revenues grew by 14.8% in 1985, to $2.9 billion. That puts to shame the FORTUNE 500, which posted a sales increase of just 2.8% last year. In the black-owned group, computer firms and other high- tech ventures showed some of the strongest increases. One such company, Maxima of Rockville, Md., which provides computer services to the Government, boosted sales 24.3% last year...
...shame that George Harrison's Handmade Films, which had become a trademark for quality silliness like Time Bandits or the darker Brazil, should sink to almost pre-Vaudevillian gags in Water. Then again, when the audience is laughing out loud, we often forget to hang on to the story line...
...roommate who committed a felony in thestate of Massachusetts and received a one-yearwithdrawal," said Thomas F. McConnell '89 ofGreenough Hall. "To put a computer prank, andbeyond that, the protecting of friends, on thesame level, to me, is a shame and a travesty...
...race has been changed. Instead of being the first to marry, the winner is now deemed as first to be president of a Fortune 500 company. I can also personally state that Weellesley students are striving for more equal give-and-take relationships with men. It is a shame that a dinner cooked once for the special occasion of a birthday was misrepresented in print as a typical weeekly mass movement...