Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching a presidential campaign--became champions of abolishing affirmative action. Finally, President Clinton responded to the storm rising in California by ordering up a full-scale review of the policy, something that Presidents Reagan and Bush had refused...
...play, a character named Captain Anteneel leads a group from Earth to the planet Alpha Cryingoutloud where they meet a alien race of eggs...
According to Pollak, who is Jewish, the idea of mixing Jewish observation with that of other cultures or traditions is alien to Jewish practice. However, a number of Dunster residents said they believe the letter was a prank, not a genuine expression of concern...
...rejected. NBC later put The Cosby Show on the air, and it became the most popular series of the 1980s. The producers' next breakthrough hit, Roseanne, landed on ABC only after NBC turned it down. And last season they tried to interest ABC in a wacky sitcom about an alien family on Earth. When the network dithered over scheduling it, the duo took 3rd Rock from the Sun to NBC--where it became the season's only unqualified...
...University of Minnesota. At that institution the Department of French was one of 45 departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Forty-nine thousand students ambulated over a space that occupied the two sides of the Mississippi River and that, as a commuter campus, turned into a alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain...