Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gunby brought his gripes to the attention of the Texas state legislature and then aired them before the American Medical Association. Last week, at its annual meeting, the organization representing 290,000 doctors in the U.S. voted to try to bring Gunby and his colleagues some relief in an unprecedented way: by forming a labor union...
...paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect but provocative life--especially when he has been thinking about it as long as Kubrick...
...Onstage you used to look for hot girls in the audience and get your stage manager to bring them backstage. That's so David Lee Roth...
...over, and Ward Connerly won. The developments at the University of California since Connerly's Proposition 209 banned racial preferences will be repeated all over the nation if similar laws are adopted in such states as Texas and Florida, where Connerly, the Pied Piper of color blindness, plans to bring his crusade. But despite the moans you will hear from supporters of affirmative action, it may not be such a bad thing. It could force African Americans to rediscover a piece of mother wit: if you want to succeed in America, you have to be twice as prepared as your...
...when Redwood talks about why this has happened, she sounds a bit like Connerly. "Sometime in the 1980s, a sense of entitlement began to replace blacks' sense of doing things for ourselves," she contends. "We started getting away from the values I was raised with--you should not bring a child into the world unless you were prepared to care for it; you had to be twice as good as whites; nothing less than an A was good enough." That erosion in values, Redwood believes, is a major cause of the "performance gap" that has undercut white support for affirmative...