Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trickier. Statistical evidence points to racial disparities in the application of the death penalty; if my cartoon redneck were indifferent to human life, he should be most profoundly indifferent to Black life. I wrote, "None of his best friends are young Black men." Both captions were meant to echo the hackneyed, insincere disavowal of racism. "Some of my best friends are Black...
...icons of Iran's Islamic revolution are not what they used to be. The former U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran, where radical students held 52 U.S. hostages for 444 days, retains only the faintest echo of those angry days. The anti-U.S. slogans on the compound's walls are faded, and the Revolutionary Guards standing outside are definitely part of a new generation. A bearded, young guardsman asks of a passing foreigner, "Are you American?" To a nod, he responds with a big smile and says, "Very good...
...weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles. The Sawyer/Miller Group, a New York City-based political consulting firm, which recently lured former Reagan political field marshal Ed Rollins, has sworn off political work. Even Atwater's old firm, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, has made a similar move...
Such sentiments echo an enduring struggle over growth between rural and urban communities throughout the West. Rural towns, which have watched political power shift steadily away from them -- Las Vegas controls 36 of the state legislature's 63 seats -- feel beleaguered and bypassed by urbanization. Taking water that flows under their land seems the final straw...
...have the last word in civil rights cases," says Johnnie R. McMillian, president of the Miami-Dade N.A.A.C.P. "Elevation of Judge Ryskamp would reduce the President's promise of racial fairness to a cruel hoax." About 100 civil liberties, labor and Jewish organizations have written to the committee to echo that view...