Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Appeal Dept: I used to have little respect for the makers of Johnny Walker scotch, a fair-to-good booze that has elevated itself to premium status (and price) through clever advertising campaigns...
They may plan festive retreats once a year. And they may publish a "leader's handbook" which presumably would help run-of-the-mill Harvard students attain the exalted "student officer" status...
...wide-ranging address before 125 people on the political status of the gay rights movement, Frank, one of the nation's two openly gay members of Congress, said that recent federal legislation has prevented AIDS from being used as the basis for discrimination against gays...
Shinkaretsky, who works for state-run Gosteleradio, has no private office, no producer, no staff. His only status symbol: a beeper that he carries in his shirt pocket. When it flashes the number 6, he knows to call Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's deputy mayor and the official in charge of the city food supply. "We're in cahoots," Shinkaretsky says, and winks...
...meantime, Kon, now at the Institute for Ethnography, hopes to use his new status as a member of the Soviet Academy of Pedagogical Sciences to keep pushing for change. At Kon's urging, the April issue of the magazine Semya (Family) will begin to run a translation of the no-holds-barred French children's sexual-instruction book La Vie Sexuelle (The Sexual Life). Three different publications this year will include excerpts from the works of Freud. "Readers will be enchanted," Kon says. "They will think it is the latest thing." Perhaps, he suggests, the excerpts should be accompanied...