Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talked to us about poverty and ghettoes and trying to give people a chance. He told us what we could do and what our government could do, but wasn't doing, to help the poor...
...Lucas' proponents are well aware, there is no such thing as an apolitical political appointment. The Bush Administration, which hopes to attract more black voters to the G.O.P., certainly had that goal in mind when it selected a black for the civil rights post. It has not ruled out giving Lucas a "recess appointment" to the job while Congress is out of session, which would allow him to serve until the end of 1990 without being confirmed. But if the Administration goes that route, it is sure to anger the Senate, endangering the President's future appointments and proposals. When...
...there is little happiness in Kapikule as ethnic Turks continue to flee from a draconian assimilation campaign waged against them by the Bulgarian Communist regime to a homeland that is hard-pressed to give them asylum. Refugees tell of five grim years of escalating pressure -- their schools closed, their language outlawed, their music silenced and their names changed for Slavic ones. Worst of all, in their view, Muslim worship was banned, a repression extending literally from the cradle to the grave: circumcision was forbidden, and Turkish burial grounds closed...
Once over the border, the destitute refugees are met by members of a government task force and assigned to sprawling tent cities to begin the painful process of resettlement. With unemployment in Turkey over 15%, the hardest task is finding them jobs. Even after inducing firms to give the uprooted Turks priority, the government has succeeded in providing employment for fewer than...
...that the increase in legal challenges has changed public perceptions and laid a basis for the law commission's extraordinary working paper. The final report will be presented to Parliament early next year and, while there is no likelihood that the government will embrace the paper, the debate will give new legitimacy to civil rights workers, who are too often seen as dangerous leftists in South Africa. State Judge Jack Etheridge of Atlanta, who recently spent seven months in Johannesburg, insists that the best counsel is to "test the government"in court. As the legal activists know better than most...