Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report released by the American Civil Liberties Union showed the problem to be of national scope. Citing police statistics, case studies from 23 states and media reports, the organization asserts that law-enforcement agencies have systematically targeted minority travelers for search--pedestrians, motorists and airline passengers--based on the belief that they are more likely than whites to commit crimes. Says David Harris, the University of Toledo law professor who wrote the A.C.L.U. study: "It affects blacks and Hispanics from every station in life and every geographic location...
Founded on the belief that a business approach is an effective means to solving community problems, and that businesses in turn must have a strong commitment to the community. Building a bridge between businesses and service organizations by promoting awareness about the potential of businesses to effect positive social change...
...There is this wide belief that the Harvard College Fund goes through and picks people, but that is not true," Locker says...
Though Trinity and Harvard University, which owns a fair amount of Square real estate, say they do not offer official "incentives" to small businesses, they do--contrary to popular belief--give those independent businesses preference...
Strengthening its belief that the Crimson, Howe Cup or not, is the best squash team in the nation, all fifteen players on the team's roster played during the championship match--a rarity in a sport in which teams usually play only nine players...