Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority youths, tend to have more trouble than adults finding work. But black and Hispanic youngsters have the worst trouble of all. Many lack the reading and speaking skills to handle today's service- industry jobs or the connections to find them. Even geography has become a barrier. Reason: inner-city neighborhoods offer relatively few openings compared with the suburbs, where jobs have been sprouting like dandelions. Frustration has caused a lot of minority youngsters to quit looking. Says Marcia Saunders, director of the Dade County, Fla., affirmative action program: "There's a tremendous number of kids with no hope...
...disintegrated early in the life of the solar system or celestial building blocks that never quite coalesced into a planet. Occasionally an asteroid is slowed in its travels, probably by the gravity of nearby Jupiter, and tugged into an orbit that sends it closer to the sun and the inner planets, including earth. And sometimes collisions occur. About 100 of the earth's largest known craters are believed to have been caused by huge asteroids dropping from the heavens...
...with the chrome abandoned to rust, stood unlocked next to supermarket baskets painted to match the vessels they served. Boats with some chance of being called yachts were berthed on A and B docks. The people tied up inside the piers next to the boatyard declared themselves IBLWT, or Inner Basin Low White Trash, and had logos and T shirts printed...
...spiritual odyssey which lies at the heart of Davita's Harp begins one summer on Long Island. In order to escape the heat of the inner city, Ilana's parents rent a cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading...
...closed the book, shoved it back into the Times, and let out an inner whoop...