Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is more mature. Today's students form associations based on mutual interests, not mutual friends. Even in a decade known for its student apathy, their projects last beyond the next day's hangover. Sex, religion, social class and ethnic origin may influence their membership, but rarely if ever do they cause anyone's exclusion...
...read those, each and every one of those Census Block Groups demographically and know what kind of folks they are, how much money they make, how much education they have, what's their ethnic background, what's their religion et cetera," says Reese...
...Estonian capital of Tallinn last week, more than 3,000 ethnic activists tested the outer limits of Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost. A congress of the nationalist organization, Estonia's Popular Front in Support of Perestroika, called for more regional autonomy, political democratization, economic freedom, a new currency and adoption of Estonian as the sole national language. But in its push for political changes, the Front stopped short of demands for secession...
...days later in Montenegro, thousands of protesters also demanded the ouster of the Communist Party leadership. Across Serbia, largest of the country's six republics, thousands of demonstrators called for tough, centralized control over the southern province of Kosovo, where a majority of the 2 million inhabitants are ethnic Albanians. Many carried photos of Serbian Party leader Slobodan Milosevic...
With six national groups and more than a dozen other ethnic groups in a population of only 24 million, Yugoslavia's nationality problems have been a source of conflict for centuries, but they have been aggravated by economic woes: inflation at 217%, unemployment at 15%, a foreign debt of $21 billion. Though a party plenum this month will try to defuse regional strife and revive the economy, a Slovene television producer fretted, "No one says it out loud, but everyone worries that ((the crisis)) can even lead to civil...