Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what his occupation. Also under scrutiny are the CP Group of Thailand, headed by Chearavanont and represented in Washington by former Democratic fund raiser Pauline Kanchanalak, and San Kin Yip Group of Macau, a business partner of fund-raiser Charlie Trie. Like Lippo, both companies are owned by ethnic Chinese and have ties to Beijing officials. Federal investigators are also looking into the business practices of Johnny Chung, the Chinese-American entrepreneur who gave the Democrats $366,000 during a period in which he helped raise about $1.5 million from foreign investors...
...this proved too much for Paul Kagame, Rwanda's strongman. Enraged, Kagame recruited some 2,000 ethnic Tutsi living in eastern Zaire and trained them with his army. In October, when the Hutu persuaded local Zairian authorities in the Kivu provinces to expel all ethnic Tutsi from Zaire, Kagame ordered his commandos back into Zaire. The alliance of Zairian Tutsi rose to resist the edict, and Zaire's notoriously undisciplined army turned and fled. Within two weeks, the rebels had seized a swatch of eastern Zaire 600 miles long...
Specializing in ethnic foods distributed to Boston bodegas--local grocery stores--Soto was set to capitalize on untapped markets...
...result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both 1971 and 1989 recommending target levels of women and minority faculty members, the number are still disgracefully...
Connerly said he felt the best way to ensure an entirely blind admissions process, in accordance with the UC Board of Regents decision to eliminate affirmative action, is to keep the process anonymous. Major public institutions, such as the University of Texas, are taking steps to eliminate ethnic data from their applications, but no major university has taken names off the applications...