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Word: america (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only way to understand what it means to be an American is by spending time in another country." I suppose the models of color couldn't afford...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Reifenberg said Brazil is becoming increasingly important in the international arena. It is the largest country in South America and has almost 160 million people...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brazilian Studies Chair Endowed | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...center has inaugurated two other programs in Latin American studies over the past two years--the Committee on Cuban Studies and Exchange and an interfaculty committee on Latino Studies, which focuses on people from Latin America living in the United States...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brazilian Studies Chair Endowed | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...more than enough to thrill recalcitrant players like David Duval and Tiger Woods, who had made this the hardest America's Team to like this side of the old Dallas Cowboys with their griping that they didn't even get out of bed for $5,000, so why should they play golf for the U.S. for that paltry stipend? Team captain Ben Crenshaw was very publicly not amused, and the whole controversy threatened to wreck a team so clearly superior to its European opponents that member Payne Stewert told Golf Digest "On paper, they shouldn't (even) be caddying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Wanted to be Paid to Have This Much Fun? | 9/26/1999 | See Source »

...must be the time to save lives and make America a safer country. Citizens must stand up to the entrenched power of the National Rifle Association and see through its rhetoric. Most importantly, with the presidential primaries just around the corner, the American people should make it clear that a comprehensive plan for gun control must be a part of any serious candidate's campaign...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Curbing the Death Toll | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

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