Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Libby said that Kennedy's proposal may not win acceptance from Southern members of Congress because the bill would help mostly urban areas...
...Gabriel's Canadian physicians kept three other anencephalic children on respirators in order to use their organs for transplantation. "I can't imagine a time when there have been so many advances in medical research that have raised such serious issues," says Neonatologist Lawrence Platt of the University of Southern California. Declares Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota: "Our fear is that somehow reproduction has shifted away from an act that creates a family into an arena in which money, profit and benefit for others start to enter...
Educators wish that charismatic principals like these -- and their methods % of creating an environment for learning -- were the norm in embattled urban schools across America. But they are rare exceptions, unreachable for the majority of America's urban pupils. Says Winifred Green, president of the Southern Coalition for Educational Equality in Jackson, Miss.: "I would move to any city in the country and send my kids to public school if I could pick the school. They are not all even...
...Dukakis, in a hotel room surrounded by aides, was preparing for the Des Moines Register debate, Clinton telephoned and explained with great discomfort that he had decided not to make an endorsement yet. His explanation: problems with the Arkansas legislature. The real reason: the rise in Gore's Southern popularity made bucking him now too risky...
Laurie Bernstein well remembers starting at a small Southern law firm and getting distinctly icy treatment from the only other woman lawyer on the staff. When Bernstein was given one of her female colleague's cases to handle, resentment turned to spite: Bernstein discovered that she was not getting the court documents, letters and other important papers she needed to handle the case. Late one evening she and a senior partner found the missing material hidden in the woman's mailbox. Ms. Sabotage was severely reprimanded. "I felt terrible," recalls Bernstein, 30. "I had expected a camaraderie to emerge between...