Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...depoliticization of the Black cultural groups coincides with their increasing independence from the BSA--a shift apparently promoted in part by widespread disenchantment with that organization. Led by a core of out-spoken, often radical, Black students, the BSA gained unprecedented influence in the mid-1970s. Buoyed by ever greater numbers of Afro-American students on campus, the organization called for direct political action by Blacks in America and on campus...
...also signaled a decline in that organization's preeminence within the Black community as the BSA began to focus on Black issues on campus, earlier community projects--such as tutoring and political support for public schools in the predominantly Black Roxbury area--were neglected by the group. This shift in emphasis drew fire from some Black students, particularly from the Seymour Society, formed...
This massive demographic shift will probably benefit the two candidates who have emerged as advocates for the lower-and middle-classes, city councilor Raymond L. Flynn, and former state Rep. Melvin H. King, the only Black candidate in the field. Flynn comes from South Boston, King from Roxbury--both considered among the poorest regions in Boston. The two finished second and fourth respectively in a recent poll...
Reagan then set about reassuring skeptical Congressmen of his sincere interest in arms reductions. Three weeks ago, he sent two letters to Congress, promising to adhere to the commission's blueprint, including its recommendation that the U.S. proposal at the START talks in Geneva encourage a shift to smaller single-warhead missiles, which are considered less likely to provoke a hair-trigger showdown. Also included in the letters was a commitment to establish a permanent bipartisan advisory panel on arms control. The President further promised to incorporate into the START negotiations a congressional proposal: the so-called build-down...
...other stress surveys, police sergeants in Houston groused about paper pushing more than physical danger; teachers ranked administrative details second only to inadequate salary; air traffic controllers, whose high rate of hypertension and ulcers has been attributed to job pressure, complained more about such mundane matters as management, shift schedules and "irrelevant...