Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lyas added that if further investigation reveals that the council "has been dealt with fairly," the organization will pay the bill promptly. "I just want to be sure the council's being treated above board," he explained...
...dropped Harvard's slate to 7-5-1 overall More important, it dealt a severe blow to any Crimson Ivy title hopes. With a 2-2-1 league mark, the icewomen can only hope that both Princeton and Dartmouth drop crucial league contests...
...Urban League's bleak findings were bolstered by another report released the same day that dealt with job discrimination. In a survey of major companies in the Boston area, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found blacks severely underrepresented in key industries. Even though minorities are generally better educated in Boston than in most other areas of the U.S., they are disproportionately concentrated in lower-paying jobs. Not one of Boston's electric, gas and sanitary-service companies has minority sales employees...
...news. Many people who hear it will still just mentally say "Oh well, the Blacks are still catching hell" and go have a nice day. They are not the people who should be appealed to in the first place, but part of the problem that must be dealt with. Unfortunately, the ones I should be addressing, the Black Americans themselves, are a little harder to reach. An estimated 44 percent of us are functionally illiterate...
...much stubbornness in them, too great a propensity for self-assertion. Langston Hughes' comic character, Jesse B. Semple (known as Simple in Hughes' newspaper column), once boasted that he had been "cut, stabbed, run over, hit by a car, tromped by a horse, robbed, fooled, deceived, doublecrossed, dealt seconds . . . but I am still here." Not even death weakens such a stand. The power of ghosts is that they manage to retain their place in the world in spite of the final obstruction; they insist on their presence. A simple matter, but a basic one. We will do anything...