Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture. When the first stage is completed in 1992, the $33 million glass-and-steel structure will rise up to twelve stories above the Hollywood Freeway in downtown Los Angeles and will be linked by bridges to the city's ethnic neighborhoods. Passersby will peer at 140-ft.-high aquariums and view scenes from Hollywood films projected on large silver screens...
Known as mainstreaming, the Gannett policy urges editors and reporters to include minorities in stories in which their race, sex or ethnic background are unrelated. For example, quoting a black professor in a story about Black History Month does not qualify, but citing a black economist in a story about the budget deficit does. "Mainstreaming," explains Overby, "is affirmative action in the news columns...
...Bhutto faces the hard part: governing a volatile country burdened by poverty, landlessness, ethnic rivalry and foreign debt. Three out of four Pakistanis are illiterate; unemployment is endemic. The economy is headed toward bankruptcy. Finally, Islamabad is the reluctant host to some 3 million refugees from the fighting in Afghanistan...
...reform has gone the furthest. Estonians feared that the new system would strengthen the authority of the central government and hamper efforts to achieve greater regional autonomy. In an unprecedented challenge to Moscow, the Estonian parliament rejected the constitutional amendments last month and passed a declaration of "national sovereignty." Ethnic Russians, he said, wanted to know "how this could happen to our brothers in Estonia...
...Asian Americans were over-represented in the sciences and math." The editorial then proceeds to accuse us of racially stereotyping Asian Americans on the basis of their interests. In fact, nowhere in our January statement was there any reference to fields of concentration by Asian Americans or any other ethnic group...