Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speak English perfectly well . . . I'm not dying from poverty . . . I want to play that kind of Hispanic woman, which is to say, an American citizen." This is an actress talking; these are show-biz pieties. But Moreno expresses as well a general Hispanic-American predicament. Hispanics want to belong to America without betraying the past. Yet we fear losing ground in any negotiation with America. Our fear, most of all, is of losing our culture...
...just want their money," said the candid guide, who had announced to the tour group earlier that she did not belong to the Chinese Communist party and would be giving us "no propaganda...
...nation in the Warsaw Pact to offer sanctuary to citizens of a Communist ally. Since January more than 4,500 Rumanians have received permission to settle in Hungary, and officials predict that the number will swell to at least 12,000 by year's end. Virtually all the newcomers belong to the large ethnic Hungarian minority (more than 1.7 million) that lives in the western Rumanian region of Transylvania. The immigrants complain that ethnic Hungarians are the victims of official discrimination. Hungarian authorities agree: in April, Budapest protested a new Rumanian program to uproot hundreds of ethnic Hungarian villagers...
...more and more women set up companies, female versions of the old-boy network are developing. The 3,000-member National Association of Women Business Owners, for example, successfully lobbied the House committee to hold its hearings on female entrepreneurs. Businesswomen who belong to the Committee of 200, an elite Chicago-based group of top executives from 70 different industries, discuss everything at their meetings, from where to find the best office computer system to how to balance a demanding career with a marriage. Says Member Joan Helpern, chief executive of the manufacturer of Joan and David shoes (1987 revenues...
Most politicians claim not to be influenced by money or favors, professing to follow the dictum of California Assembly Speaker Jess Unruh: "If you can't drink their booze, eat their food, ((have)) their women and vote against them in the morning, you don't belong in this place...