Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lenehy said that the report will shock many people. "There is a certain complacency we have in Massachusetts about being progressive and being liberals. Massachusetts perceives itself as progressive, but if you look in South Boston you see some of the ugliest racism you'll ever find anywhere," said the UMass. Official...
...transportation system is strong, Australians have been eager to obliterate what came to be known as the "hated stain." They succeeded so well that there was no comprehensive popular history of the country's penal-colony origins until Robert Hughes, art critic of TIME and author of The Shock of the New, finished his project, which he began more than a decade...
Oliver stopped writing the book when he was twelve; the family stopped when Oliver was 16. "The news of their divorce came as a total shock," Stone recalls. "The Hill School headmaster was the one who told me. And when they were divorced, my father gave me the facts of life. He told me that he was heavily in debt. He said, 'I'll give you a college education, and then you're on your own. There's literally no money...
...says that equality does not mean women have to fit the male model." The ruling opens up the possibility of radical -- and potentially costly -- changes in the employment practices of American business. Says Virginia Lamp, an attorney for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "The ruling is disappointing and a shock. It was a victory for proponents of special treatment for women in the workplace...
...boast any real brawn. "It's the best-kept secret in America today -- the lack of youth fitness," declares former Pro Football Coach George Allen, chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "It's a disgrace." The alarm comes as a shock to most parents. Nine out of ten believe their own youngsters are physical marvels, a Louis Harris poll reported for Children magazine. In truth, 40% of boys and 70% of girls cannot do more than a single pull-up, according to a survey of 19,000 six-to-17-year-olds released last year...