Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...name pays homage to the black mathematician and surveyor who helped design Washington, D.C. in 1790. The founding group of parents and educators grew out of the DuBois Institute, a Saturday program that tried to give black children a chance for academic and personal enrichment...
...gain the charter, the founding group had to prove the school would offer something the Cambridge public schools did not--so they went with a math and science focus...
...group of women visiting from Montral arrive for a tour. The store is a stop on their culinary guild's tour of the area...
...group led by Brazilian researcher Ventura Santos produced evidence that a skull found in central Brazil not only has Negroid features similar to Australian aborigines, but predates - by almost 2,000 years - the oldest previously known human remains found in the Americas. This suggests that a race originating in Southeast Asia, not the North Asia of the Mongoloids, inhabited the Americas first. The researchers believe that an advanced group of skilled seafarers originally traveled from Asia to Australia, and, after several millennia, an offshoot of this population set sail again, this time for South American shores...
...bandied about by presidential hopefuls, from Bill Bradley's calls for better family benefits to Al Gore's environmentalism to John McCain's push for campaign finance reform - all seen as pro-labor issues. The move also comes right after the endorsement of Gore by America's largest labor group, the AFL-CIO, which also pledged $40 million toward federal campaigns, primarily to Democrats...