Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leland could never forget her face...
...main lesson of these states' experiences is that reform works best when those concerned have a say. "Unions, business, educators -- everybody has to be involved," says Joe Fernandez, superintendent of schools for Dade County, Fla. "You've got to forget the turf battles...
RICHARD M. Nixon gave us Watergate and stuck the FBI on reporters. Gerald R. Ford dared us to forget The Pardon. And Ronald Reagan shoved arms-for-hostages and dollars-for-contras down our throats...
...hostile, very, very hostile. There was almost every day a major crime -- people getting mugged, robbed, chains snatched, children beaten. And not people of both groups: the victims were always somebody out of the 49%. A kid who was sent down to the grocery, an adult would escort him. Forget the playground. Only one kind of people used that, and that was the people who created the nuisance. My wife was mugged by a team. And at that time we decided we were just going to stand up and fight. Now if ((someone tries a mugging...
...beguilingly easy it has been for most white Americans to forget. How tempting to ignore the evidence that discrimination endures. How alluring is the myth that all those willing to work have shared in the surface prosperity of the 1980s. How glib are the assumptions that civil rights legislation, affirmative action and black political participation inevitably lead to an integrated society. How self-satisfying to conclude that the U.S. has already done enough to tear down the barriers of segregation...