Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least we can say that we belong to a definite generation that isn't solely defined by our interest in video games and heavy metal music. I was always a little jealous of my parents who did things in college like march on Washington with Martin Luther King, watch the Kennedy-Nixon debates live and go to Beatles concerts...
...belong to the last of the SAT generation. It's better than being a homogenous effect of the Reagon era. It sets us apart...
Another volatile force tearing at India's fragile unity is the politics of caste. Two months ago, Singh opened that pandora's box by announcing that he was setting aside 27% of government jobs for Indians who belong to 3,000 designated "backward castes." The Prime Minister took the initiative to enlarge his support among lower-caste voters and cut into the B.J.P.'s and the opposition Congress (I) Party's power base. But it had the unanticipated effect of arousing ancient animosities among caste groups in the north and stirring violent protests, including self-immolations, by upper-caste students...
...Massachusetts' welfare policies are too generous and his claim that giving a speech on drug abuse in Roxbury would be equivalent to talking to a bunch of drug addicts. If these comments reflect "straight shooting" Silber's true feelings--as his backers claim--then his true feelings do not belong on Beacon Hill...
...program's hugely successful trial period, Christensen and the circus had no trouble finding further funding from a number of local and national foundations and corporations. He recalls only one voice of opposition. "A hospital staff member once said, 'Clowns don't belong in the Intensive Care Unit.' So I said, 'Neither do children...