Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is an immoral company, then I don't want any of their money," said Elizabeth A. Haynes '98. "Either we take the money or we don't. Let's not sit in this middle ground...
...caused no loss of life. Last Sunday another F-14 splashed down into the Pacific about 120 miles from southern California, killing its two crew, and on January 29, an F-14 augured into a residential neighborhood in Nashville after takeoff, killing the crew and three people on the ground. Defense spokesman Kenneth Bacon called the F-14 crashes a "mystery", and said that the standdown would give Navy experts time to "wrack their brains for any explanation to the crashes...
...immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment, no roads, virtually no electricity or telecommunications or running water, sporadic fuel. The people's adoration of Aristide has buffered their bitter disappointment, but they do not hold Preval in the same regard, and he will have to produce concrete proof of democracy's shiny promises...
...redlining (loan discrimination against minority neighborhoods). First Interstate then offered $585,000, on the condition that Payne put up his lot and $100,000 of his mother's property as collateral. Even so, Payne is still about $350,000 shy of what he needs to begin construction--and losing ground. Vacant, the land is declining in value. "It puts the applicant on a slippery slope," says Payne. "I have no income, I have no building, and I have a debt of more than $1,000 a month I hadn't had before the riots...
...longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive and continuous transition, bursting at the seams with high spirits, misery and spectacle...