Word: doored
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employee of the 212 Western Ave. Pizza Ring reports that at 11 p.m., an unknown person forced open the door and took a cassette player, a calculator, $15 and $400 worth of food...
...headlines were sensational, and the editorial writers were not far behind in drawing the politically correct conclusion: PROPOSITION 209 SHUTS THE DOOR (New York Times). In the relentless campaign against Proposition 209, which in 1996 abolished racial preferences in California, the "plunge" in minority students accepted for next fall at the University of California is political dynamite, alleged proof that the new color-blind admissions policy shuts the schoolhouse door in the face of minorities...
...counting these students and looking just at those whose race we know for sure, black and Hispanic admissions at the UC system declined only slightly, from 17.7% to 17.2% of freshmen. (African Americans going from 3.7% to 3.3%; Hispanics remaining steady at about 14%.) This is shutting the schoolhouse door...
...centurion that he was dead, he granted the body to Joseph. And he bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. --Gospel of Mark...
...resettlement of refugees know that it is not getting better, unfortunately, for many others. Not all in Africa is a bed of roses. The thorns are still tearing away at millions of dispossessed people throughout the continent who have lost their homes. U.S. refugee policy closes the door on some of the most severely oppressed and displaced people in the world. The number of Africans admitted to the U.S. is absurdly low in relation to the need in Africa. RALSTON H. DEFFENBAUGH JR. Executive Director Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service New York City...