Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though some sticky problems exist in the school system, such as the teacher's union contract and the accommodation of ethnic and linguistic minorities, most of the talk has been of long-range planning and improving education programs...
...addition, young, affluent professionals have mobilized their own coalition of candidates this year, leading both liberal and conservative pols to wonder whether their traditional political bases in ethnic working-class neighborhoods will survive the onslaught of newcomers to Cambridge...
...many of his supporters, O'Neill represents a type of ethnic and neighborhood based politics that is rapidly disappearing. Red McGrail recalls, "Tip's a politician 24 hours a day, he doesn't just come out the week before election...
Nothing should be surprising about this treatment of Soviet Jews. Like Islamic peoples, Ukrainians, Estonians, Latvians, Orthodox Christians, Asians, and a host of other ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union (which far outnumber ethnic Russians when added up), Jews are excluded from all positions of significance in the party, the government, the military, and industry. One of the last havens for Soviet Jews--academia--is being steadily eroded by the ostracism of the mushrooming refusenik population...
...Oldses plan to develop a full line of ethnic games. The next, scheduled to appear in February, will be devoted to the Irish. Jewish and Italian versions are on the boards...