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...they see somebody in their neighborhood attain some place in society because of affirmative action, it can be helpful," Williams said...
...READ WITH INTEREST THE ARTICLE "Prime-Time Tunes" about CDs featuring sound tracks from TV programs [SHOW BUSINESS, Oct. 30]. The first TV sound-track album to attain gold status was produced under my auspices more than 25 years ago. It was the music from the afternoon series Dark Shadows. Unlike most of today's TV sound tracks, this album contained only Charles Grean's original music from the show and was devoid of appearances by major stars. We used the people in the series and cut it for under $10,000--cheap even in those times. Today the record...
...thing we will probably not have to endure is living in an urban ghetto or having our children go to school where there are more guns than pencils. The current trend our government is taking, however, is going to make the gap between those with the chance to attain "the pursuit of happiness" and those without it even larger. If welfare, Medicare, and other programs that favor the poor are cut, then the already large underclass will become even larger, and soon the only people who will have the opportunities that our forefathers wished for everyone will be members...
...spare time at Tyler Elementary School in southeastern Washington, where he instructs sixth-graders on how to own and operate a business. "If capitalism is the great engine that moves this country, then business is the fuel," he says. "If I show them goals they thought they could never attain, then show them how to get there, then I will have done my small part to help them achieve a better life." But the march has convinced Nelson that he needs to do more. By the end of the school year, he intends to start a program designed to help...
Then everything suddenly became different. The power changed hands. As the world's 20th largest economy, Taiwan started to feel justified asking for more things to compensate for, its ill-represented status. Worldwide recognition was definitely the first and foremost goal to attain, for how can Taiwan continue to grow without an identity, a spirit or even a proper official name that won't cause confusion at the Olympic Games? Giving up its United Nations membership in 1971 is still considered the greatest shame by the island's politicians, who find their own territory by all means an independent state...