Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these answers have not been satisfactory to minority groups who see this as a key opportunity to press their demands for a better-funded educational system. McKinnis says the Committee "hasn't moved any further in stating that they do want to see the plan provide the educational enhancements...
Rather than seeTrue Believer, in fact you might be better advised to go out and buy the soundtrack album; use the $6 you save by not going to see True Believer, to rent videocassettes of Salvador and Robocop. Who says you can't have...
...recent issue of Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...
...movement to change the term to "African-American" attempts to give Blacks more awareness about themselves, and to become more concerned with Africa. But it is a move with more feeling to it than logic. For better or for worse, America is the only home Blacks have known...
...Wins Are Hard to Come By: "Where we've come from in four years when these guys were freshmen, it's like night and day," said Roby, referring to the direction of the Harvard basketball program. "We just have to continue to get better and get a couple big wins under belt to let people know where our program...