Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elitism of the clubs is unmistakeable. Also unmistakeable is the fact that final club members aren't your typical oppressed minority. You can test this by looking at what their reaction would be to the removal of their special status. Final club members would be disappointed if you took away their male-bonding luncheons, fine houses, and beer parties with Wellesley women. Women, however, would be very pleased to have access to the final clubs' resources and connections, to be paid equally for equal work, and to be free from sexual harrassment at the hands of men well-trained...
Nancy Carter, a staff member of the GOP State Committee, says she expects a large turn-out from Independents as well as Republicans. "You have to watch out for Independents because many of them think our way but they want their independent status." She predicts a victory for Bush, saying that of all the Republicans, he has put the most money and personal appearances into the state...
...less of it than in aerial skiing, which is as much a sport as cliff diving in Acapulco, but much more than in that odd amalgam of shuffleboard and housecleaning called curling. In the current heat of demonstration sports, short-track skating seems worthiest to win normal- event status...
Dowler said he is also proud of the improvementof Houghton's financial status over the last fouryears. "I will be handing over to my successor afinancially healthy institution," theadministrator said. "It was not that way when Icame...
Carnes's comment follows in the wake of statements by David W. Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, who last week charged that the nation's 100 most expensive and selective universities increase their tuitionsto maintain an elite status and thus enlarge theirapplicant pools...