Word: belonged
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...Amnesty International report showed that many of the victims of police brutality in the United States are unarmed, lack a criminal record and belong to an ethnic minority. The fact that Giuliani turns a blind eye to these sorts of statistics and deaf ear to the pleadings of minorities to watch dog is disturbing, to say the least...
Williams said there are from 500 to 1,000"casual" or part-time workers paid minimum wagebecause they do not belong to a union...
...understand what rap is all about. It's about neither status nor history but the wish to belong. There are exceptionally talented black people who want to make sure they make it into the U.S.'s extremely nationalistic "hall of fame." The only means accessible to them is to create their own "music," which white people call hip-hop. RETO ZOPPI Mexico City...
Nonetheless, globally speaking, I am one of few, and I acknowledge my minority demographic. Happily, even; and why not? I belong to an equally worldwide (though less exposed) counterculture that values quality sound and whose members struggle for cultural survival in the face of the Mainstream Threat by battling each other, be it on microphones, turntables or breakdancing floors. And I try to portray it in the scribbles that cover my book of rhymes; and that's real, baby...
...reform crusade sent her approval ratings into the gutter. Her much publicized role in the callous firings of the civil servants in the White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...