Word: descent
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Born in Kermanshah, Iran in 1919, Lessing hasbeen a prolific writer. She authored thefive-volume Children of Violence (1951-1969),Briefing for a Descent Into Hell(1971) and LondonObserved: Stories and Sketches...
...would be hard-pressed to find anyone of minority descent making the decisions," says Reeves. "The whole administration, the whole public health [administration], all of the decision-making is largely [white], largely male...
...areas in which there remain matters ofunderrepresentation including hiring persons ofHispanic and Asian descent, and in hiring in theofficials and administrators category, and in thedepartment head or policy-making level," Gardnersays...
Maxwell, whose father is from Ghana and mother is a French Canadian of mostly Irish descent, says she identifies herself as being biracial...
When she has to fill out forms, she says, "Iput I'm Canadian of African descent. I certainlydon't call myself just white and don't call myselfjust Black...