Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that politics makes strange bedfellows, education makes even stranger bedfellows," said supporter State Sen. Diane Wilkerson (D-Roxbury), Massachusetts' only African-American senator...
...Wednesday's press conference, Menino pledged renewed support to build five new neighborhood schools in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan--areas which are predominantly African-American communities that also have few schools...
...listen. "There?s just no justification for a hike right now," says Baumohl, and plenty of reasons for maintaining the status quo ? mainly that a tightening in the U.S. could make things difficult for neighbors to the south. "The Asian crisis may be over," he says, "but the Latin American one isn?t. Greenspan doesn?t want it erupting and hurting the U.S." Funny thing ? those same fears, plus some standard nail-biting over earnings reports, are muting what might have been a big inflation celebration on Wall Street. Which makes Greenspan?s laissez-faire that much easier to defend...
...anyone anywhere in the world can attest to ? except quite possibly in Washington, where the current HMO debate is raging ? the best medical treatment isn?t worth anything if you can?t afford it. So it came as momentous news on Wednesday when a joint American-Ugandan research team announced a new, simple and inexpensive way to help prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus from pregnant mother to child. The new treatment uses the drug nevirapine, whose costs amounts to about $4, instead of the standard, short-course AZT regimen used in the Third World, whose costs total...
...years, the NAACP has lamented the flood of handguns into African-American communities. Yet the nation's oldest civil rights organization has had little impact on curbing the proliferation. But the shooting tragedies in Littleton, Colo., and Conyers, Ga., plus the recent court victory against gun manufacturers in New York, may give the organization the political firepower it needs to advance its public-safety agenda...