Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sit at separate tables, keep largely to ourselves, count people of our own group among our closest friends. Whether Black or white, we all realize that race still matters in some intangible way, though its effects are real. The tensions evidence themselves in small ways--the perception by Blacks of insensitivity by whites, the assumption by whites of special consideration for Blacks...
...Vice President, Quayle asserts, his model will be -- surprise! -- Bush. Quayle will receive the same intelligence briefings as the President and sit in on Cabinet meetings, so he will be fully informed on policy. But, following Bush's wishes, Quayle will keep his mouth shut except when talking one on one with the President, whom he will serve as a general adviser on the whole range of policy issues. Like his predecessor, Quayle already has a standing once-a- week lunch date with his boss; they will eat together every Thursday. Quayle will also have some responsibility for space exploration...
Harvard administrators sit down with Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers leaders to embark on contract negotiations. Suddenly, Harvard announces pay increases, a new network of child care facilities and fair job classifications for all support staff. The union negotiators eagerly sign the contract, before the Harvard officials get a chance to utter, "April Fools...
Later in the month, organizers at the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW)--which now represents a support staff that is 83 percent female--said that campus safety could become a bargaining issue when the University and HUCTW sit down for their first contract negotiations. Adding safety to HUCTW's longstanding advocacy for better child care services indicates that the union's agenda will be weighted heavily toward women's issues...
...romanticized by some as "fabulous, fun" times. However, even a superficial but full historical account of the times will show the 50 s as a time which was indeed painful, complicated and even life threatening for people of color. Civil rights were non-existent. Blacks did not vote or sit side-by-side with their fellow human beings in public places. Martin Luther King was actively engaged in the struggle for equality of all people. Women were mostly treated as sex objects. The portrayal of the 50 s in the light of this flier unintentionally excluded the experience of many...