Word: clairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dairy Farmer Clair Hoover, whose pastures are barely five miles from the nuke, has reported 19 dead cows in the past six weeks. Although a simple infection may be responsible, as it often is during calving season, Hoover admits: "I can't help but have my thoughts." William Peffer of nearby Newberrytown, who had evacuated his family to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., says that his wife still wakes in a cold sweat at night...
...Wesly Clair Mitchell, a professor at Columbia and the first president of the NBER, chartered the bureau in 1920 as an organization "devoted to objective quantitative analysis of the American economy." That quantitative analysis included the compilation of statistics on the business cycle and labor supply. The bureau began amassing information like flow of fund accounts and national income accounts for the government to use in fiscal planning...
Angela Cuppetelli St. Clair Shores, Mich...
...only was St. Clair's behavior high-handed, culturally biased, and subtly racist, his argument of cultural assimilation proved logically contradictory. In arguing that the Indians' loss of their native language, their intermarriage, their informal government, and their conversion to Christianity dissolved their tribal status, he ignored the stark fact that Indians, at least in the East, have to live in a white man's society and by white man's rules. Indians survived by undergoing cultural assimilation, and now they are being penalized for adapting to necessity...
...Clair's arguments are only one symptom of a widespread cultural arrogance and intolerance that emerged all too clearly in this trial. The trial itself, more than the jury's inconclusive decision, demonstrated how difficult the attainment of judicial impartiality is in a society biased toward a cultural norm many groups cannot understand or accept...