Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT is certain is that the "middle class"--the broad spectrum of Americans for whom culture, outlook and life-opportunities are similar--is being bifurcated. The "two-tiered society" does not just describe two income brackets, but two ways of life and two ways of looking at life in America. ever-present evidence of homelessness...
...Sackler exhibit alternates drawings thought to be genuine Rembrandts with works similar in subject and form that are attributed to his followers. The tantalizing juxtaposition of student and master drawings invites visitors to either agree or disagree with the experts' attributions...
...master said that to his knowledge in nine years at the house there has been no similar harassment. He also issued a personal apology to Lucas...
...more lasting solution could be found in a loan forgiveness program--similar to the one in place at Columbia--for women and minority students attending graduate school. According to the University, the small number of women and minorities with Ph.D.'s is the biggest obstacle to a more diverse faculty. By removing some of the economic burdens of college graduates through loan forgiveness, the University can go a long way toward increasing the size of the pool of qualified minority and women scholars...
...American policymakers show similar restraint when the controllers try to unnerve them by having a U.S. KC-135 tanker aircraft stray into Soviet airspace and a U.S. destroyer accidentally ram a Soviet submarine. In the role of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral William Crowe Jr., who in reality stepped down from that position only the day before the taping. "These things happen," he says...