Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first black mayor, kicked off his campaign for a second term by threatening to skip the Feb. 24 Democratic primary altogether and run as an independent in April's election. Not to be outdone, a brigade of would-be successors, all lifelong Democrats, proclaimed that they too might shun the party and enter the fray as independents or even -- horrors! -- as Republicans. Crowed the mayor, whose best hopes for re-election depend on a crowded field: "Monkey see, monkey do. The more the merrier...
...agonizing debate about whether such actions are justified. In New York City, conflicted emotions simmer to the surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty: the young, black males of its underclass...
VIETNAM VETS have supported Springsteen and repudiated Stallone. A disabled vet told Rolling Stone, "Springsteen cares about what we've done. He doesn't shun us....'Born in the USA' really hit home." On the other hand, when Stallone visited Harvard last year, Vietnam vets protested. One vet complained that "Rambo represents an ugly mood in this country...
...weak? Sorta drowsy? Recite "The Bells" aloud into a tape deck, pop your recording into an industrial strength ghetto blaster, and let 'er rrrrrip, full volume, for dozing neighbors. Run-DMC's got nothin' on Poe... though they might make a mean team: "The TIN-too-NAB-yoo-LAY-shun of duh BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS BELLS! HUNH...
...Producers as well as consumers should adopt policies that shun drastic interference in the market forces which may disturb the much sought for long-term stability," he said. "It is only through the acheivement of long-term free market equilibrium that stability can be [attained...