Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even more difficult to explain to men--especially those who haven't yet shed their supra-orbital ridges and prognathian jaws--that a women has the right to be both sexy-looking and respected at the same time. A man who flaunts his sex appeal is not presumed to have forfeited his status as a thinking and dignified being. A women, on the other hand, has a tougher choice to make--between appreciation in the sexual game and life's other arenas. It is a dilemma imposed on her by a common male tendency to attribute masculine desires...
Bryce Harlow, the very wise aide who served Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford, developed a theory that the mettle of a President and his Administration is never really taken until there is a failure, whether from within the Government or thrust on them from the outside. How these people shed their jealousies and fears, how clearly they see ahead, how they come together and embrace the national interest instead of their own ends is the true measure of a President and his aides...
...HARDLY BE ARGUED...," the U.S. supreme court ruled in 1969, that "students shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate. "But before and since, an unholy alliance of school administrators, parents, and courts have done just that--often explicitly defending those infringement of students' constitutional rights. In schools in Broward county, Fla., administrators now greet students by painting "Lockers are subject to search" in the hallways. As the rising tide of cries for tighter discipline roll across the country, they often sweep student rights back past the proverbial schoolhouse gate...
...surface. Sommerville High School shed a potentially dangerous and disruptive troublemaker. Along the way, it also trashed the Bill of Rights. It's easy to rationalize such travesties of justice by claiming officials only trampled the rights of high school students or criminal defendants, but that's very misleading. Jeffrey Engerud's civil rights exist independently of whether he's selling drugs or writing Shakespeare themes. As his particular case shows, the only difference between Jeffrey Engerud, student and citizen of the United States and Jeffrey Engerud, criminal defendent and drug dealer, are a couple of well-placed and well...
...book says nothing about sex, exercise or cats. It does not tell readers how to solve Rubik's Cube, make a million dollars in real estate, or shed 20 Ibs. in ten days. Instead it deals with the mundane world of corporate management, and its authors, two business consultants, never expected to join James Michener and Jane Fonda on the bestseller lists...