Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, opening trade with Indonesia will hardly help the plight of residents of East Timor who face constant discrimination in Indonesian labor markets and civil society. Why should a glut of dollars in the pockets of a nation's wealthy change their attitudes about minorities, or anything else except their opinion of the U.S.? Most of the profits from trade will go to those few Indonesians already in positions of power. President Clinton has repeatedly bashed trickle-down economics in this country, but now he's decided to try it in Indonesia...
...other side of the Stadium sat the glum Harvard crowd, quiet in defeat except for the occasional defiant yell, "Yale Sucks...
...veteran Jim Sasser by campaigning against the things Sasser was for: gun control, abortion rights and Washington pols telling people not to smoke in Old Smoky country. The main requirements for success among the neophytes were work in a field unrelated to government, a life lived outside the Beltway except for the odd trip to see the monuments, and a Democratic incumbent as hoary as one of the marble buildings on the Gray Line tour...
...Ramoses' long siege began soon after they arrived in 1985. Kathleen Kraft, now 37, reportedly told them, "We think that you and your family should move out." That was the nicest thing the Ramos family says it ever heard from the Krafts, who are all unemployed except for Marie, 65, who assembles door parts in a factory. Isidor Ramos, 40, a black 19-year veteran of the Chicago police department, says the Krafts called him a "nigger" and his wife, a Puerto Rican, a "spic." Daughter Mindy, 20, has been called a "spic whore"; Ivan, 12, a "little nigger...
...distributed inside their churches. The guides, designed to appear objective and distributed close to the election so Glickman couldn't effectively protest them, gave the Congressman negative ratings on hot issues. Example: Glickman was labeled undecided on federal funding for abortion, although he has consistently voted against it except in cases of rape or incest. Last Tuesday nine-term incumbent Glickman lost his seat in Congress to conservative Todd Tiahrt...