Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yard brushes off the criticism as so much "inside-the-Beltway mentality from people too closely tied to the Democratic Party establishment." Though she complains that she is "fed up" with both Republicans and Democrats, Yard has toned down NOW's third-party talk, insisting that all she has done is set up a commission to study the idea, a frequent inside-the-Beltway prelude to deep-sixing...
...limited and well-defined military retaliation in a hostage crisis if all other means failed. "((The panel)) would not approve of wanton destruction of human life . . . in order to show some muscle," said Bush in introducing the report. Armed force would be used only "where it can be surgically done...
BODEANS: HOME (Slash/Reprise). Brand New is the title of one of this album's best cuts, but BoDeans fans will be cheered to know that the band's still doing what it has always done best: focused, aggressive rock that doesn't stint on spirit...
...across the message that you have nothing to fear from the next person. We have had to prove to whites that we are not going to have power and leave them out. The burden is on us to make the effort to include them. That approach has done more for race relations in this town than anything else. I very much do not want to be guilty of some of the things they were guilty of. I have more close white friends today than I had five years ago because of my work here. There are white women and white...
...myth that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...