Word: breeding
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...white control, and New York City may be about to join them. But the big turnover at city hall cuts across racial and party lines. Even in cities like Atlanta and Detroit, which are so heavily black that no serious white candidate even bothers to run, a new breed of black mayors is emerging. They have more in common with their white contemporaries than with their black predecessors. Call it the nonvision thing...
...amounts to a back-to-basics approach to governing, putting more emphasis on delivering services, fighting crime and balancing the budget than delivering lofty speeches. Unlike earlier mayors who carried the combative style of the civil-rights movement into office, the new breed tends to be hands-on managers and conciliators who served long apprenticeships on city councils and in business. They tend to seek private-sector solutions to long- festering urban woes instead of advocating big programs from Washington. As Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser, who is stepping down after four terms, puts it, "pragmatism has pushed ideology...
...children; homosexuals do not. The mind boggles. I am sure Professor Mansfield's claims will come as quite a shock to the thousands of gay men and lesbians in this country who do in fact have children. Equally shocked will be the countless heterosexuals who have no plans to "breed." Unfortunately, Mansfield has confused the charge to reproduce the species (a charge, by the way, which an over populated planet might well wish to apply with caution) with his own obvious talent for reproducing the specious. This homosexual is more than happy (she is even "gay") to leave the latter...
Mice are the best experimental option because their physiology and in utero developmental processes have many similarities to that of humans, McMahon says. Mice also breed quickly and in fairly large litters, shortening experimental periods...
Young America cried foul that one of the new administration's own breed, a private man from small town America, could so abruptly break off his obligations to a younger generation disenchanted with Washington and in desperate need of his kind. Without any real explanation, no one could understand this violation of trust...