Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been quite so exciting as the Olympics, but the World Agriculture Exposition held in Amana, Iowa, last month commanded exhaustive coverage from the country's newest television broadcast service: RFD-TV, a 24- hour satellite channel aimed at farmers. The service, named after the old postal term rural free delivery, broadcast live from the expo for 16 hours...
Members of the Underclass are not the same as the traditional poor. About 30 million Americans live below the poverty line, but the Underclass constitutes only about one-quarter of that figure. The number is imprecise because the term itself is vague. It refers to the poor who are more than just temporarily down and out, the ones caught in a vicious cycle of poverty and despair. For the most part they are black and live in the decayed hearts of major cities. But the Underclass is defined less by income than by behavior. Members are prisoners of a ghetto...
Bernice Buresh and several colleagues agreed. Buresh resigned as B.U. Associate Journalism Professor at the end of the spring term this year on "journalistic grounds and the grounds that [the Afghan project] was likely to be part of an intelligence project...
...each year. Edward J. Larkin '90, manager of HSA's student resources branch, says his office is filling only 10 to 15 percent of all openings, despite an aggressive publicity campaign offering starting salaries as high as $8.25 an hour. However, Larkin says he does not anticipate any long-term trouble in finding students to do moving, cleaning and other chores...
American presidential elections have a tendency to spark realignments of public opinion toward the nation's major political parties. A decade ago, the Democratic Party was regarded as the dominant political force in America. The term "conservative" was about as well-respected as "liberal" is today. Yet Reagan's 1980 election was as much a victory for conservative principles as it was for his candidacy...