Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support school districts will be cut. Federal financial aid for college students has been under constant siege since Reagan took office. The President honors Shelly Butler only in his speech; he prefers to attack her and countless other upcoming Americans with his educational policy. Quite a way to treat a national hero...
NIGERIAN-BORN AUTHOR Buchi Emecheta welcomed her cosmopolitan sisters to the United Nation's conference on the Decade of Women in Nairobi last spring: "On behalf of mother Africa, 'welkome, dear sisters to the Modar' lan'. Afrika go treat you well, well. Welkome." Her welcome came as a genuine call for solidarity, reconciling differences within the international women's movement...
Like most Americans, television news editors had begun to treat space shuttle flights as routine. Cable News Network, the Atlanta-based all-news channel, was the only network to carry live coverage of the shuttle launch. Correspondent Tom Mintier, narrating the spacecraft's ascent, retreated into shocked silence for several seconds following the blast. Then, after the explosion was confirmed by Mission Control, he announced "what appears to be a major catastrophe in America's space program...
...submitting this issue to a referendum because so much of our deliberation lately has been sidetracked in controversy over the political nature of student government. A referendum is the only way to know how our constituents want to treat such a "political" issue...
...believe that the leadership's vision of student government calls for this remedy, and we offer this referendum as a vote of confidence in their approach. The outcome will show how our constituents would treat this "political" issue...