Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-appointed feminists? They're talking only to one another, after all. But the women's movement, like many upheavals before it, from the French Revolution in 1789 to the civil rights movement in the U.S. and even the uprising in Tiananmen Square, would be nowhere without the upper-middle-class intellectual elite. Feminism didn't start in the factory. It started in wood-paneled salons, spread to suburban living rooms, with their consciousness-raising sessions, and eventually ended up with Norma Rae. In fact, that trajectory is its biggest problem today--it remains suspect to those who have never...
Hawley said that as the space shuttle struggles to overcome the earth's gravity, the body pumps more blood into the upper half of the body than usual in order to prevent it from pooling in the lower half...
Hawley said that once the shuttle reaches zero gravity, the body "is still preferentially pumping fluid" into the upper half of the body...
...flaw to this argument. Students who fall into the second and especially the third financial aid categories may simply decide, like my friends, that the cost of a Harvard education outweighs its benefits and may not even apply. However, while the middle and working class applicants may drop, the upper-class applicants could continue at the same or higher levels...
...invented 80 years ago in Japan, issued to soldiers in World War II, prescribed to chunky housewives in the '50s, known to '60s hippies as speed and now sometimes passed out to antsy third-graders with attention-deficit disorder--is, at least in its crumbly, powdered street form, an upper that leads straight down...