Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imagine the incident. A search turns up a man with only an ankle injury. Turtle becomes a hero and a participant on an Oprah Winfrey show about kids who save people's lives. She is seen by millions, including Annawake Fourkiller, an Oklahoma lawyer dedicated to annulling Anglo adoptions of Indian children...
...hope as the perils and pressures crowd in is that the remarkable spirit of cooperation and compromise that has developed in recent months can be preserved and built upon. Former enemies are already gathering ^ in countless forums to address critical issues like the economy, education, jobs and housing. Says Anglo American Corp. labor negotiator Bobby Godsell: "We cannot achieve political and social stability without addressing the issue of poverty immediately." For the A.N.C., contact with business has made it warier of socialism's nostrums. "We have no intention of introducing a command economy," insists the A.N.C.'s chief economist, Tito...
With an instinct for contrast, Los Angeles voters pared a passel of 24 politicians vying to replace Mayor Tom Bradley and picked two polar opposites for the June 8 runoff. Venture capitalist Anglo Richard Riordan, 62, calls himself "tough enough to turn L.A. around." Liberal Asian-American city councilman Michael Woo, 41, vows to "build a multiethnic coalition." The campaign, predicted University of Southern California pundit Larry Berg, will be "a knock-down drag...
...largest and longest-term investigation ever done has come to exactly the opposite conclusion. A three-year Anglo-French study reported in the current issue of the Lancet found that patients infected with HIV follow about the same course into disease and death whether or not they take AZT early on. The finding doesn't question AZT's benefits for those who already have symptoms. And it is being viewed cautiously by AIDS researchers; a single study won't change standard therapeutic practice. It does, however, call into question the prescribing of an expensive drug, and guarantees that the search...
...might also come as a surprise to know that students of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant descent are now underrepresented at Harvard. The only two groups that are over represented--and they happen to be extremely overrepresented--are Jewish and Asian students, who comprise about one-fourth and one fifth of the class of 1996, respectively...