Word: depth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge churches in the late 20th century have often not worried about the relative height of their buildings but about the depth and range of their social concern. Reaching out has been as much a motive as reaching up. They have been able to move horizontally--if not vertically--into the Cambridge community in a number of ways that are less religious but more social, educational and political. Within a mile's radius of the Swedenborg Chapel, we can find a history of such outreach that more than compensates for any physical restrictions. Consider the following three examples...
...more rigorous championship schedule certainly calls a team's depth into play more than a dual meet does. The Crimson should have an advantage over most of the field in this area, with strong performers in each event...
...sprint and middle distance events are key to the Crimson line-up. Those are the events in which the team has the greatest depth this year...
...irrespective of race, especially low-skill workers, have seen an increasingly globalized, high technology economy, much facilitated by laissez-faire social policy, drive down their wages and standard of living. Nonetheless, research involving carefully designed audits (i.e., matched pairs of job applicants), as well as systematic surveys and in-depth interviews of low-skill employers speak loudly on the subject of race: direct racial bias against African-Americans exists today. Continued race bias in the labor market and residential segregation help account for why a far larger fraction of the black poor as compared to the white poor, have incomes...
...racism. In order for that to happen, however, President Clinton and his advisers will have to speak candidly on a subject where the most politically palatable or ideologically safe ideas usually trump even the most obvious social facts. Noble intentions and great initiatives notwithstanding, I fear that the depth of the mendacity of the dominant discourse on race may yet preclude this from happening...