Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some students may not have attended because they believed that interpersonal racism, which the conference emphasized, is not as important as the more glaring problem of institutional racism. Minority children in single-parent homes, economic inequalities, unfair sentencing practices and persistent exclusion from influential positions haunt our country. But it is impossible to separate institutional and personal racism, because institutional racism is simply an expression of more subtle personal prejudices...
...defeat by Columbia the first week of the season at Blodgett came back to haunt Harvard, as the squad finished one loss behind both the Lions and Princeton, who share the Ivy crown with 6-1 marks in the league...
...dares ram through a confirmation unless Tower, 63, can decisively dispel rumors of drinking and womanizing that have dogged him for years. Last week those charges arose at the next-to-last moment to haunt him yet again. The Armed Services Committee had scheduled a vote for Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
...emergence of leftist insurrection shocked Argentines and revived fears that haunt the nation. As military analyst Andres Fontana put it, "People don't want a return to terrorism, and they don't want to give any space back to the military." A visibly shaken President Raul Alfonsin sought to quell any speculation that Argentina might be returning to the bloody ideological battles of the 1970s. "This is our opportunity to demonstrate to the world that we have learned from our past," he counseled...
...Bush could find himself in a Catch-22 situation. Caution could hasten the general secretary's demise, but zeal could come back to haunt the president if Gorbachev loses power...