Word: ghettoes
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...second, less explicit layer of meaning, the Quayle line took on complex racial colorations. He suggested that Murphy Brown was a bad role model for unmarried females. In the speech's context, he was talking about single mothers in the ghetto. But like so much in last week's odd episode, there were signs of hip shooting and inadvertence...
...necessary to vouch for the good intentions of Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to spend billions fighting poverty. The one who needs credit for good intentions is Bush, who says such efforts are unnecessary or even destructive and -- by a remarkable coincidence -- the true solutions to the problems of the ghetto are those that ask virtually nothing of the white middle class. Naturally Bush would like to stipulate good intentions all around...
After a panel of German judges convicted him of murdering seven people and being an accessory in the murder of 32 more, Josef Schwammberger, 80, commander of a Jewish ghetto and slave-labor camp in occupied Poland, was sentenced to life imprisonment...
...many African Americans have flowed into the middle class, they too have sought refuge in the suburbs -- often against the resistance of red-lining banks and reluctant white neighbors. Their departure has done more than deny tax revenue to the cities. It has deprived black youths in the ghetto of living examples of the steady work and stable family life of middle-class blacks...
...police were unprepared to quell the ghetto's rage...