Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youngsters. Her idea was to find a few fairly typical children and live with them 24 hours a day -- go to school with them, watch television with them, eat and sleep in their homes. The first challenge was to find a selection of interesting children from various income, ethnic and geographical groups. Initial guidance in that quest came from Dr. Robert Coles, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his study Children of Crisis, and from Marian Wright Edelman, who heads the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund...
...Soviet arsenal has traditionally been characterized by serviceable but relatively primitive weapons, known more for brute strength than sophistication. That is true as well of the military's tough but poorly trained personnel, who, because of ethnic diversity, often do not speak the same language; up to one-quarter of all Soviet draftees must be taught Russian before they can understand their commanders...
After five months of ethnic unrest in the republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ran out of patience last week. Addressing the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Gorbachev charged that efforts of the largely Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia were "unacceptable" and endangered his program for revitalizing Soviet society...
Whatever the outcome, hard-pressed immigrants will go on joining ethnic loan clubs. For many, the informal banks represent a leg up on the American dream. Someday the language and cultural barriers that hold back immigrants may start to crumble. Until then, the loan clubs will no doubtprosper...
...SUBURB THAT GREW ETHNIC STRIVERS...