Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Egyptian stations near by, known respectively as J-l and E-l (from map coordinates, not ethnic shorthand), that were built with U.S. assistance...
...reputation for scholarship, in addition to administrative acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
Besides settling the ad issue-at least to their own satisfaction-the A.B.A. delegates in an overwhelming voice vote finally endorsed the 1948 U.N. Convention on Genocide, which the Senate has long refused to ratify. Though the document clearly outlaws only an intentional effort to destroy an entire ethnic or racial group, Southern Democrats and isolationists worried that such charges might be brought unfairly against Americans. Key opponents to the convention in Washington were the A.B.A. and North Carolina Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr. With Ervin retired and the A.B.A. having reversed course, supporters of the convention now hope...
...Glazer, affirmative action means dividing people into new ethnic interest groups, completely artificial in their makeup. A continued policy of affirmative action could spell the end of the middle class black gains...
...explain how the program even came into being, Sowell speculates that perhaps, the Nixon administration pushed it because Nixon had everything to gain by splitting the ethnic coalition of Jews and blacks that had elected liberal democrats for decades. Glazer is more elaborate. His explanation cites the needs of bureaucrats to expand their own powers, and the overstaffing of the bureaucracies that handle affirmative action programs with minorities and women...