Word: status
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...Committed: These are affectations or adornments that are either (1) uncomfortable and unpleasant, and hence indicate a true believer/martyr/fashion slave, or (2) that have not quite yet achieved mass-market status, and hence are still daring enough to alter the course of the bearer's life...
Barker, who as president serves as official spokesperson for the Board, would not comment further on the Overseers meeting or on the status of the committee's report. When asked why he would not disclose the results of the meeting, Barker said, "This matter is still confidential. I cannot talk about...
...deadline passed last week for migrant farm workers to seek U.S. residency status under a special amnesty program, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that it had received an astonishing 1.2 million applications, four times the number expected. Normally, about 600,000 aliens come to the U.S. each year to pick crops and work on farms. To qualify for amnesty, the aliens must show they did such work for 90 days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986. So it seems that at least half the applications were phony...
...idea for a buddy movie: Capitalist and Communist Do Manhattan. In Moscow on the Hudson, the Sequel, Gorbachev confers on Trump, who already lives like royalty, the head-of-state status he has been seeking since he publicly implied in 1985 that his premier dealmaking skills were what the strategic arms reduction talks were missing. For his part, Gorbachev gets a view of capitalism run amuck: Trump owns one of the city's biggest apartments (a $10 million, 20,000-sq.-ft. triplex), a palatial country house (Marjorie Merriweather Post's 118-room villa, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach...
...urge the school to do what is possible with their limited resources. In all honesty, however, Kennedy School parents and supporters will continue to look curiously at the new building being constructed in our backyard and wonder where the School's commitment to affirmative action and improving the status of women and minorities really ranks among its other obvious priorities. Patty Spengler Member, Child Care Policy Group Kennedy School of Government