Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Justice Department, Georgia created three such "majority minority" districts, including one now represented by Cynthia McKinney, a black Democrat. In a suit brought by five white voters, the court ruled that because race was the "predominant'' consideration in drawing McKinney's district, it violated their rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. "Racial classifications with respect to voting,'' Kennedy warned, "threaten to carry us further from the goal of a political system in which race no longer matters...
DIED. ERNEST T.S. WALTON, 91, Nobel laureate who, with car batteries, bicycle parts, cookie tins, glass tubing and partner Sir John Cockcroft, became the first scientist to split an atom, proving that E did indeed equal mc2 and ushering in the hope and terror of the nuclear age; in Belfast...
...central issues of the day, especially the budget, making them a party without a President. White House strategists even have a term to describe the way they distance themselves from their fellow Democrats: triangulation. When the President wants to position himself on a given subject, he draws roughly equal-size lines from the Democrats and Republicans and puts himself at the apex. Congressional Democrats have their own word for the process: strangulation...
...CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the Southern Baptist Convention finally got around to admitting that slavery is sinful and asked forgiveness from blacks for its historic role in defending segregation...
...debate over the death penalty reached its peak in Massachusetts this week, concern for an issue of almost equal significance in the category of "cruel and unusual punishment" has been sorely lacking. That issue is the resurgence of support for the chain gang and other similarly inhumane and archaic methods of punishment...