Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest immigrants are following an arduous and traditional path into American society. Throughout the country's history, groups of newcomers have tended to cluster in certain jobs and then dominate their chosen fields by long and hard work. "This is a very common, recurrent phenomenon," says Harvard Sociologist Daniel Bell. German arrivals with names like Schlitz, Busch and Miller became beermakers in the mid-19th century, for example, while Italians grew fruits and vegetables and produced wine...
Some Hispanics question whether full assimilation, at least in the sense of giving up the Spanish language and Hispanic cultural traditions, is even desirable. Says Daniel Villanueva, a former field-goal kicker for the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams who is now general manager of KMEX in Los Angeles, a Spanish-language TV station: "I bought hook, line and sinker the myth that said you had to give up your culture to assimilate." Now, he says, he shares "a new mentality that says you can take the beautiful parts of the Hispanic culture and you can take the drive...
...Hawaiian island at 17,500 m.p.h. The intention was to bounce the low-powered ribbon of light off the mirror and send it flashing back to Maui. But as the blue-green laser beam successfully "painted" the spacecraft over the test site, no reflection bounced back. Mission Commander Daniel Brandenstein stated the obvious: "We're not pointing at the ground...
...bones, added Brazilian Forensic Anthropologist Daniel Munoz, conflicted in not a single respect with the medical records of the man who sent 400,000 people, mostly Jews, to their deaths at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland during World War II. Earlier, experts had found that the handwriting on documents discovered in Brazil corresponded to Mengele's, and that photographs found in the Bossert home matched old pictures of the doctor. Most telling of all, an advanced method of matching the reconstructed skull against old photographs convinced the investigators that they had found their man. "I came here...
...supplanted by their own bill, which called for $10 million in aid for Nicaraguan refugees. They were appalled when their liberal colleagues joined Republicans in axing the Democratic measure, leaving the U.S. with no aid at all for the anti-Sandinistas. Then, within days of the vote, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra made a highly publicized journey to Moscow in search of increased Soviet aid. Said Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania, a key architect of the Republican victory in the House: "Some people realized they'd made a mistake in believing Ortega was an agrarian reformer...