Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Company No. Five is only one of many examples of Cambridge's recent efforts to entertain and edify citizens with public artwork. With the help of special city funding, the municipal art council has transformed more than 85 sites in almost every neighborhood into open exhibits of local talent, ethnic spirit and community pride...
...Faculty Council, in its first session of the spring term, also considered expanding the procedures to apply to complaints other than charges of discrimination. The current procedures deal only with grievances" which allege discrimination on the basis of race, color, religious belief, sex, national or ethnic origin, handicap...
Four Friends is a retrospective lock right. It's an ass-backwards cavalcade of newsreel-type images lacking sound and fury, interspersed with gratuitous about ethnic groups, a kitchen sink toward detail, and a felling of amity that never gels...
...Landon by 27 million votes to 16 million and increasing the Democratic total by 5 million since 1932, F.D.R. built the force that came to be known as the Roosevelt coalition. To the solid South and the big-city machines, he had added an implausible combination of blacks and ethnic minorities, intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that...
...persecution of Shcharansky is part of a pattern of increasingly severe treatment of dissidents, Jews and other ethnic minorities that has coincided with the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations. Soviet leaders have increased the arrests of dissidents and cut back drastically on the number of Jews allowed to emigrate. By the end of 1981 emigration had dropped to an average of 380 people a month, an 82% decline over the previous two years. One of those allowed to emigrate earlier was Avital Shcharansky, 31, who met Secretary of State Alexander Haig during his trip to Israel two weeks...