Word: gain
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Attacks on the capacities of African Americans and other minority groups are as pervasive as they are historic. Institutionalized disadvantage still circumscribes our best efforts to gain a foothold, let alone credibility, within American institutions. Professor Mansfield would trivialize the persistence of racism in this country by propagating the absurd notion that unqualified minorities are swelling the ranks of Harvard and decimating its standards as a result...
...threat of a default on the national debt, that was really more about spin than substance. The G.O.P. had long intended to use the need to lift the debt ceiling to gain leverage in budget negotiations; the Administration had an equal interest in casting the Republicans as reckless for holding the nation's credit hostage to "extreme" demands. Both sides, however, were quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions...
...five years, are going after a new generation of customers who want cheap prices and have yuppie pretensions. That's partly why niche retailers like Crate & Barrel, which specializes in affordable housewares, expect to continue their rapid growth. Gordon Segal, the founder of Crate & Barrel, predicts an 8% sales gain this Christmas for his stores...
...sorrow-laden past, it is little wonder that these "quintessential strangers," as author Isabel Fonseca calls them, remain wary of all gadje (non-Gypsies.) An American of Hispanic and Hungarian-Jewish parentage who lives in London, Fonseca used her painstakingly acquired knowledge of Romany, the Gypsy language, to gain insight into a scattered nation of 12 million people without a homeland. Bury Me Standing (Knopf; 322 pages; $25) is both a history of the tribe and an account of the author's personal quest to uncover its secrets...
...turned and blacks were in the majority, wouldn't they seek a priority position over whites? It may be that Farrakhan is interested in a better life for blacks, but his main concern is power and influence for himself. He uses an arsenal of hate, malice and jealousy to gain power. MORRIS B. HART Schaumburg, Illinois...