Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filed the suit after the city considered racial and ethnic factors in its lay off of more than 100 teachers last year in an effort to preserve its affirmative action police in the face of Proposition 21/2. The union contends that lay-offs should have been ordered on the basis of seniority...
...Kremlin succession: The Soviet Union is in deep crisis. Its economy is in serious trouble. Soviet power is overextended globally, and there is mounting disaffection among diverse social and ethnic groups. When [President Leonid] Brezhnev goes, his successors will face two choices. They can keep making outlandish appropriations for defense and engaging in global adventures, or they can face up to their internal problems, turning away from military expansionism toward reform of the domestic system. Russia has experienced throughout its history periods when the government had to turn inward to cope with its problems. The idea that the greatness...
...prejudices of the uprooted California lower middle class from which he came. He believed that Jews formed a powerful cohesive group; that they were predominantly liberal; that they put Israel's interests above all else; that they were more sympathetic to the Soviet Union than other ethnic groups were; that their control of the media made them dangerous adversaries; that Israel had to be forced into a peace settlement and could not be allowed to jeopardize our Arab relations...
Since then, Sholom Aleichem has suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...professors and administrators on the council discussed allowing complaints besides these that "allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap or age" to be included in the procedure...