Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blind date. Ending months of silence between the men, Powell telephoned to congratulate the Kansas Senator in early April after Dole clinched the G.O.P. nomination. By careful arrangement, Dole had been warned to simply say thanks and under no circumstances mention the vice presidency. Dole obeyed the ground rules but asked the retired general, "Can I call you for advice on foreign policy now and then?" Sure, said Powell, anytime. And then he hung up. The whole thing lasted less than a minute...
...turned and plunged into the Everglades at a 75 degree angle in a 100-ft. spume of water, dirt and small fragments of debris. He then flew over the site and radioed for help. "The wreckage was like if you take your garbage and just throw it on the ground," he told CNN. Moments later Coast Guard aircraft and crews from the nearby Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show, then in progress, were dispatched to search for the aircraft, but they found only scattered pieces in a large discolored ellipse of marshland. The crash is the seventh worst...
...meeting of black leaders in December 1988, Jesse Jackson and others suggested that "African-American" should replace "black" as the term of choice. Since then, "African-American" has been gaining ground among black leaders, politicians and the national press. In the past four years at Harvard, I witnessed the fascinating phenomenon of a label in transition: students coming to the point in a sentence where the proper racial label should be inserted would hesitate, even freeze, before gingerly choosing one. At times I would avoid using either term, electing to leave the person's race unspecified rather than choose between...
...surprise that writers like Frank Chin turned to black culture as a model for Asian-American identity. Chin saw blacks as everything Chinese-Americans were not: independent, defiant of white culture, rejecting assimilation in favor of constructing their own unique identity. Chin and others sought to ground Asian-American identity in the unique historical experience of Asians in the United States. Chinese-Americans, Chin argued, were not simply sojourning Chinese; rather, their identities were shaped by the American Chinatowns in which they were born and raised...
Kennedy said that he later looked at the scene, and saw a six-inch imprint in the ground where it appeared that the student's feet had landed