Word: height
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...Alejandro Portes, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, "see everything as a zero-sum game. If blacks get something, Latinos lose something, and vice versa." Many African Americans believe that Latinos are benefiting from civil rights victories won by blacks with little help from Hispanics. Says Fletcher: "During the height of the civil rights movement, Hispanics were conspicuous by their absence. They kept asking, 'What about us?' But rather than joining us in fighting the system, Hispanics were fighting us for the crumbs. And that in large part is still what's going...
...more monumental than Mount Rushmore: Abe Lincoln's face alone is three times the height of his statue in Washington. In a gigantic party last week, 3,500 revelers attended the 50th anniversary of the sculpture's completion. George Bush presided over a formal dedication ceremony and the launch of a $40 million fund-raising drive to renovate the memorial...
...when she stumbled over him while rushing off-stage after an unsuccessful audition for a television special. Although the famed choreographer Agnes de Mille had discovered her and given the young dancer her first professional role, in a piece created for the American Ballet Theater, Jamison found that her height (5 ft. 10 in.), dark coloring and close-cropped hair made it difficult to find other jobs in a world that prized petite, fair women with flowing tresses. Ailey, however, recognized her special talent and kindred spirit and invited her to join his company. Their partnership flourished, reaching its apogee...
Even the Federal Government has endorsed the moderating trend. The latest tables for "healthy" weights, published last year, provide much more latitude than earlier charts, allowing for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain from age 35 on. Why the extra allowance in middle age? "Some studies have shown that in older years, heavier people have better life expectancies," says Dr. C. Wayne Callaway, a George Washington University professor of medicine who was a consultant on the tables...
...Federal Government's latest tables for "healthy" weights, issued last year, provide more leeway than earlier charts. The new standards allow for a range of 30 lbs. or more at each height and up to a 16-lb. gain after age 35. Meanwhile the American rage for dieting has diminished...