Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then he noticed something happening--or not happening. Despite the positive feedback on the job performances of the couple, their careers had stalled. They had done everything they believed they were supposed to have done. Both have college degrees, both worked hard, both were waiting their turn for advancement. But it never came. In fact, white people they trained were being promoted above them. "The only difference was, they were always white and I'm black," says Willar Hightower. "Eventually, you realize it's discrimination." Willar and Josephine Hightower are now incipient rebels, taking part in a class action that...
...handwriting samples. Sources tell TIME that by then she was so alienated from Ginsburg that she didn't want him to accompany her to the court. He did anyway. When Starr's lawyers asked her to copy specific handwriting passages--a routine practice in such sessions--she didn't turn to Ginsburg for advice, the sources say. They say she insisted first on contacting her other lawyer, Nathaniel Speights, who remains on her team. After that conversation, she refused to comply, and the Starr team went home without a full selection of her handwriting...
...ugly side effect is a presumption among many adolescent boys that sex is an entitlement--an attitude that fosters a breakdown of respect for oneself and others. Says a seventh-grade girl: "The guy will ask you up front. If you turn him down, you're a bitch. But if you do it, you're a ho. The guys are after us all the time, in the halls, everywhere. You scream, 'Don't touch me!' but it doesn't do any good." A Rhode Island Rape Center study of 1,700 sixth- and ninth-graders found 65% of boys...
...remarkable--and in ways lamentable--product of youthful promiscuity and higher sexual IQ is the degree to which kids learn to navigate the complex hyper-sexual world that reaches out seductively to them at every turn. One of the most positive results: the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and of teenage pregnancy is declining. Over the past few years, kids have managed to chip away at the teenage birthrate, which in 1991 peaked at 62.1 births per 1,000 females. Since then the birthrate has dropped 12%, to 54.7. Surveys suggest that as many as two-thirds of teenagers...
...brightest stars in the Dow firmament, the company's stock has slipped 10% in the past month. The good news is that Disney remains the world's most beloved entertainment brand name--a kind of profitability triple threat that uses movies, theme parks and merchandise to turn every hit into a volcano of revenues. But some analysts are worried that its fabled pre-eminence in the animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped...