Word: spite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What used to be the Law School Divestment Committee has renamed itself the Law School Anti-Apartheid Committee to get administration funding--but in spite of the change, members will still pay for divestment activities out of their own pockets...
Still, the family hope is Macon, a Princeton graduate and best-selling author of a travel guide series called "The Acccidental Tourist." Tyler's wonderful irony describes how, in spite of the successful career he has built living out of hotels, Macon hates travel, especially to anywhere foreign. A true American tourist, he distrusts the exotic. Hungarian paprika makes him sneeze; his taste consistently tends toward American which, to his xenophobic mind, means the assurance of safety, the familiar: home...
...Administration has regrettably taken a different road. In response to our moratorium, it defiantly hastened to set off yet another nuclear explosion, as if to spite everyone. And to our proposals concerning a peaceful space, it responded with a decision to conduct a first operational test of an antisatellite weapon. As if that were not enough, it has also launched another "campaign of hatred" against the U.S.S.R...
...cosmetics empire, started by Charles Revson in 1932, has been showing signs of old age during the 1980s. Profits fell from $192 million in 1980 to $112 million last year. But in spite of pale cosmetic revenues, the company has become a takeover candidate because of its booming health-care business. More than half of Revlon's sales now come from such unglamorous products as Tums antacids and Orafix dental adhesive...
Unfortunately, this neglects the bigger question: Are they learning because of bilingual studies or in spite of them? Nearly 20 years and hundreds of millions of dollars have gone by, but the question remains...