Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When NASA head Daniel Goldin declared earlier this year that the U.S. rocketry program is inferior to those of European competitors, he was only stating the obvious. True, the U.S. launches real astronauts and not just satellite payloads. But dismayed by delays, cost overruns and the Challenger disaster, paying clients began to go elsewhere. The shuttle's $80 million-per-launch cost prompted California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to quip that it is "the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills...
...Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago, to put up a parking lot for the new, vastly inferior Comiskey Park...
...professor at the University, their words and ideas have been taken by many Americans as gospel. Likewise, Agassiz, Morton and a number of other 19th-century scholars connected to prestigious universities and foundations operating from racist perspectives saturated the public with pseudoscientific proof that African-Americans were inferior. The 1990s is a repeat of the 19th century, where academics define the parameters of discussion and defend the racist thinking of their colleagues...
Also unsubstantiated is Mansfield's assertion that Harvard's excellence "is compromised by the desire for diversity." Nearly all of its minority graduates--ostensibly those who benefited from affirmative action in getting in--have gone on to successful and fulfulling careers. Unable to empirically demonstrate inferior performance by minority students while at Harvard, Mansfield instead lashes out against grade inflation, an entirely separate issue...
...school board since 1994. He feels the underlying assumptions of desegregation are patronizing to blacks--as does Justice Thomas. "It never ceases to amaze me," wrote Thomas in his Missouri v. Jenkins concurrence, "that the courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior...