Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example, although barely 10 per cent of blacks in college during these years attended white institutions, some 227 of the 525 blacks (43 per cent) who received doctoral degrees in these years got their grounding in success orientation at top-rank white schools such as Harvard. This was true, for example, of virtually all the black professional historians and social scientists of this period (for example, Carter Woodson--University of Chicago; Rayford Logan--Williams College; Allison Davis--Williams College; John Aubrey Davis--Williams College; Robert Weaver--Harvard College; Ralph J. Bunche--University of California; and Frank Snowden--Harvard College...
...moral of this story: Shapp's financial package was less of an inducement in VW's decosopm-making process than it was a bonanza once the decision was made. Nowhere was this more true than in tax abatements Shapp offered. Two years ago in Working Papers, MIT economist Bennett Harrison published a study of corporate decision-making on plant location. Harrison concluded that tax incentives were so far down the corporate priority list--much less important than factors such as site access and condition, workforce composition and education, union presence--that they served primarily as windfall profits. But meanwhile, states...
...waltzes. Directly beneath it, on the stage proper, is a butcher shop openly displaying huge gory carcasses hung from steel hooks. The images form a contrapuntal irony. This is a subcutaneous play in which maggots infest the corrupt body of a seemingly sound and smugly self-satisfied society. The true atmosphere of the play is the stench of impending Nazism...
...They are an obsessive team, so narrowly focused on winning an elusive pennant that they are too inflexible to cope with sudden injuries, slumps and clubhouse conflicts. They are tragic heroes in a city full of tragic heroes. And so, for Boston baseball fans, the Red Sox are true heroes, the perfect cast of real-life drama...
...Chomsky cites the massacre of 100,000 persons in the Timors by Indonesian forces as an illustration. That may well be true. But how many persons have known of the massacres of the Kurds by the Iraquis in recent years, or the Nagas by India, let alone the hundreds of thousands of African peoples in the bloody tribal wars in Central Africa...