Word: american
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATLANTA--Civil-rights leader and Visiting Professor of Afro-American Studies H. Julian Bond denied in court papers yesterday that he is father to a child born to an Atlanta-based flight attendant...
Bloch also acknowledged that the federal government's support for science research has been insufficient. As the percentage of the American Gross National Product spent on research has stayed constant at about 2.8 percent in recent years, Japan's has doubled during the same period...
...attempt to introduce some measure of fairness into the deduction has met with protests about the "sanctity of home ownership." Mondale went so far as to call the mortgage interest deduction "the only deduction that is in the tax law that does any good at all for the average American...
...problem with the deduction is that the "average American" gets precious little out of it. You could scarcely imagine a system that distributes housing assistance as regressively as does the mortgage interest deduction...
...first, the 30-minute Dinkins speech recalled the history of American slavery. "Tonight we forge a new link in that chain as [a Black man attains] the highest office of the greatest city in the world," he said...