Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time as well. The new Soviet leader will be chosen from among the twelve voting members of the Politburo. He is likely to be a member of the powerful party Secretariat, which controls the day-to-day affairs of the Communist Party, and he will probably be an ethnic Russian. To rule effectively, he will have to count on the support of some combination of backers from the three main pillars of Soviet power: the party bureaucracy, the military and the technocratic elite. But imponderables remain. Will the small group of men, whose average age is now 67, choose...
...University should support and publicize events of all official student organizations during freshman week to introduce each incoming class to the full range of extra-curricular college life. It should also encourage all students to join in non-separatist cultural and ethnic experiences. Fundamentally, the Freshman Dean's Office should enhance bonds among students--not accentuate divisions. The FDO's revised calendar, a laudable step in the right direction, furthers these basic goals...
...neighborhood's biggest ethnic populations are Portuguese and Italian, each group making up about a fifth of the area's residents. In addition, large numbers of Irish and Polish descendants live in East Cambridge...
Unlike the Square area, a close-knit ethnic population characterizes Cambridge's eastern shore. The main street of the city's first industrial area is lined with drugstores and small shops which reflect the neighborhood's diverse ethnic composition. There is an Italian bakery, Irish pub, Portuguese sandwich shop, and Greek cafe...
...There are a lot of ethnic groups which would be forced out by gentrification," says David Kronberg, editor of the neighborhood's quarterly newspaper, Losing those ethnic groups would, Kronberg adds, "erode the neighborhood's fabric...