Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the proposed projects include instituting technical courses not currently offered in public schools and starting ethnic and bilingual programs...
Rule of Law. How does this newest ethnic lobby function? In Congress the American Greek community has worked mainly through Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Congressmen John Brademas of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Benjamin Rosenthal of New York. Only Brademas and Sarbanes are of Greek extraction (there are only three other Greek Americans in Congress: Representatives Louis "Skip" Bafalis of Florida, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gus Yatron of Pennsylvania). None of them consider themselves part of a Greek lobby. "We prefer to think of ourselves as the rule-of-law lobby," says Brademas, whose...
...fact, however, the ethnic and geographic differences within the huge country have often meant that enacted reforms were not vigorously enforced by the states, which have considerable power under India's federal system. With the new clout given the central government by the emergency, New Delhi may now be able to force the states to execute reforms. The emergency might also create a sense of urgency within the Congress Party and a willingness to close ranks even on the normally divisive economic issues...
...rationalize you could say that New orleans is more spread out than most cities, that vitually all buldings where people live are no higher than three stories and are surrounded by at least a little space and built attractively; and that it has a long standing tradition of unselfconscious ethnic mixing. But it's harder to make sense of than that...
...because it turned out to be a factor in the election of Audrey Rowe Colom, a black Republican, as the new NWPC Chair. Colom, however, downplayed the tensions that gnawed at the convention. "I think that what you saw here this weekend was sisterhood and that sisterhood transcended racial, ethnic and party lines...