Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeopardy. But this may not be true much longer. In spite of the notable recent upgrading of such already fine schools as Howard and Morehouse College, two-thirds of the 800,000 black college students, including many of the brightest, are now attending white institutions. Distinguished black professors have also joined the "brain drain," and as a result, some of the nation's 120 black colleges and universities are in jeopardy. Generally committed to accepting the financially strapped graduates of inadequate secondary schools, they are now hard pressed to enroll more qualified black students, to improve their faculty...
Hellman's courage is still evident in spite of her deliberate down-playing of it. And so also is her anger--especially at those who would praise her now but did not have any beliefs worth holding on to when the conditions of the age tested them...
...McDonald's reached Fortune 500 status in the late 60's, it turned its back on its entrepreneurial origins. Kroc had touted the franchising scheme, for instance, as a kind of popularization of big business, an opportunity to return to the era of Mom and Pop restaurants in spite of an increasingly concentrated economy. But as Kroc's company grew, it began to tread mercilessly on the franchisers who had paved the way for its growth. Using questionable techniques, it aggressively bought back many of its franchises--usually the most profitable--which had provided it with capital and spread...
...there are editors at Playboy Press, and not just photo-retouchers) appear to have adopted a laissez-faire attitude toward the manuscript, which at 344 tedious pages is too long by half. They probably assumed that the book would sell as a novelty, like a celebrity cook book, in spite of its content. Still, Agnew's book is interesting for what it reveals about his limited imagination and as one more example of the kind of mentality he helped foster in the late sixties...
Petri said that in spite of the med schools' misgivings about admitting an ostomate, "the more I protested that I was normal, the more they insinuated that...