Word: action
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubles action, Cardi-Leschly, Zimmerman-Shyjan and Brown-Chang all advanced to tomorrow's quarterfinals...
...singles action, Tricia Small and Jennifer Minkus each advanced to the quarterfinals, but were eliminated. Small fell, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, to Notre Dame's Pacella...
Unfortunately, things go wrong, and word leaks out about the covert action. With the election months away, the administration panics and decides to cut its losses, covering up the operation and abandoning its para-military groups deep in the Columbian jungle. Sound really, really familiar...
...latter half of this decade it has become too apparent that the conservative right is no longer willing to tolerate affirmative action policies as a means of redressing past injustices. This harsh new era has also seen the zeal of the Civil Rights Movement wane in a generation that did not experience the horrors of sanctioned and institutionalized racism...
Though many lower-income white Americans would not go to the extreme of exhibiting such violence, they nevertheless harbor as much pent-up anger. They feel that policies such as affirmative action--established to bring African Americans and other minorities to economic and social parity--infringe upon their rights. After all, they contend, they are not responsible for the grave injustices perpetrated against African Americans 30, 50 or 150 years...