Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Faced with Wagner and Chebotariov's application, Quincy House officials devised a new set of guidelines for their tutor selection process.
"With the recent war, [with] a lot of jokes people make about Arabs and Iraqis you don't know whether to laugh or to be offended," says Al-Attar, who is Iraqi. "You are often faced with the conflict--should I laugh or says something?"
AFTER ZOE BAIRD AND KIMBA WOOD, NEITHER THE Clinton Administration nor its critics were in the mood for another imbroglio. So Dade County (Miami) prosecutor Janet Reno faced a Senate Judiciary Committee eager to accept her as the first woman Attorney General. She made the most of her opportunity. Reno...
Assembled in the ornately pilastered hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, the Deputies unhesitatingly voted by large majorities to cancel all previous power-sharing compromises with Yeltsin, ban the April referendum, strip away the President's power to issue decrees and put the Cabinet under parliamentary control. In effect, the...
4. Deconstructing Racism. Finally, let's take a crack at that oppressive monolith of a word, "racism." I will just suggest a first, crucial distinction we can make, which is between contemporary and historical racism. As sociologist Michael Harrington explained in his 1984 book, The New American Poverty, "racism is...