Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most persuasive group to enter the fracas was the Harvard Black Law Students Association, whose president, Francesta F. Ormes, said, "We will not let this discussion go on, nor would any self-respecting, proud ethnic group allow a discussion of this type to be conducted...
...Carney, an attorney and land developer, seemed an apt choice-a moderate white who represented both black and business interests and commanded the resources to run an estimated $100,000 campaign. Perk spent hardly any money on advertising; instead, he capitalized on-and deepened-his personal popularity and purposeful ethnic Bunkerism. Perk did well in the white wards (where he won 79.8% of the vote), and Carney performed well with blacks...
...which workers reconcile themselves to their status. They delve into societal dictates on people's modes of thought, which are often far more effective and less brutally obvious ways of keeping people in their place than sheer economic power. The long-term interviews Sennett and Cobb conducted in ethnic neighborhoods in Boston and with Bostonians who had moved to the suburbs showed most people had both a complacent and a wounded side that in some ways are comparable to the two styles of life which Howell describes on the family level. On the one hand is satisfaction and resignation...
...Agnew] like all ethnics. While the WASPs are out trying to steal the bed of an ocean or the First and Fourth Amendments--they only commit high crimes, the WASPs--the ethnics, what do they know, when they steal, they steal cash. So here in the middle of this great thing with a president trying to steal the Constitution and set up a dictatorship, here in the end what does the one ethnic do? Greek immigrant, son of a Greek immigrant, he takes two cases of asparagus off a Food Fare guy and a couple thousand dollars in bills (which...
...after Woodcock announced the terms of the tentative settlement between union leaders and management, the conflicts between workers of different racial and ethnic backgrounds and varying ages became more intense...