Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...majority-white schools--a higher degree of segregation than existed 26 years ago, when the Supreme Court first upheld mandatory busing. In these circumstances, the N.A.A.C.P.'s. insistence on school integration appears antiquated to many young blacks--a situation that an organization with a median age approaching 50 can ill afford...
...split with him and formed a rival faction in May, Toan Chay told TIME, "I already consider myself the leader of Cambodia." The best outcome would be for King Sihanouk to mediate, as he has done in many past crises, but he is currently in Beijing and ill with cancer...
...enterprise intended to preserve international amity, the expansion of NATO has produced a discomforting amount of friction and ill will. Even this week's summit could turn into a "food fight," as an American official puts it, because the U.S. has ruled that only three new countries will be admitted to NATO in the first round, though others are to come in later. The welcome mat is out for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. But France, Italy, Canada and other members of the alliance were pushing the candidacies of Romania and Slovenia, and in some conference rooms charges...
...prompted one of my pet peeves: illustrations of extraterrestrial creatures that look just like humans. Get real! We humans are the product of a host of improbable accidents. Science tells us that space and life are weird beyond belief. And so are real aliens. ALAN M. PERLMAN Highland Park, Ill...
Does the U.S. Air Force really think people will accept the explanation that its high-altitude balloons dropped dummies that did not in any way resemble human beings but just happened to be 3 1/2 to 4 ft. tall, with bluish-colored skin? DEE SCHOR Arlington Heights, Ill...