Word: existing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second alternative, which Ali thinks is seriously flawed, is downplaying the racial, cultural and ethnic differences that do exist. "I don't think the way of solving or dealing with diversity is saying we are all the same," he says...
...sense, it's hard to tell because the subject was never discussed 20 years ago, it simply didn't exist in people's consciousness, it was snickering in back rooms and gossip and innuen-does and sly remarks, but no sort of open discussion," he remarks. "I think that has changed much for the better...
...theories we learn are tools to get at whatever subject we are studying. They are around because they help people to understand the significance of the material. That's why Marx and Sassure and Derrida and all those other icons of socio-eco-polilinguistic theory exist. The problem, however, is that no matter how smart we are, we are not as smart as these people yet. (That's part of the reason why we have so much trouble coming up with original ideas...
...struggled last week to explain why postal workers seem more prone to violence than workers in other high- stress fields, like coal mining or air-traffic control. One possible explanation: budget cuts that have reduced the screening and supervision of workers. Another could be the boot-camp conditions that exist for many workers. Delivering the mail is not necessarily a more dangerous profession than most, just an easier one for unstable workers to enter...
...strip was all women and it was black," says Barbara Brandon. Rather than alter her work, she waited two years until she found a syndicate that would let her do it her way. Now she routinely treats issues like color differences within the black community and the tensions that exist between black men and women...