Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loury's compelling call for the Black community to look inward for solutions to its problems has gained currency on the national scene--but not to the benefit of conservatives. Jesse Jackson has become the undisputed leader of Blacks partly on the strength of his call for young Blacks to recognize that despite their disadvantages they are "somebody." And it was a progressive Black sociologist, William Julius Wilson, who built a top academic career on arguments that racism fails to account for Black exclusion in America. His analysis has a strong class component...
...American consumers have ballooned the trade deficit with their overeager and unplanned frenzies of spending financed with credit cards and other consumer debt arrangements. Both are beginning to cripple the economy and damage the standard of living. Graduates students who will study these problems would do well to look inward to understand the the ethos that is at their source...
...Asian-American Association. However, most non-minority students look down on the leaders of these groups and fail to take their activities seriously, viewing them as anti-social in purpose and practice. As a result, Harvard ethnic organizations cannot stage any meaningful events that are not directed inward toward their own particular minority community. Students who choose to make these groups an important part of their lives begin to find their friends there and spend much of their time in ethnic activities to the exclusion of the larger Harvard community...
...Mexico with eerie precision: "The firing circuit closed; the X-unit discharged; the detonators at 32 detonation points simultaneously fired; they ignited the outer lens shells of Composition B; the detonation waves separately bulged, encountered inclusions of Baratol, slowed, curved, turned inside out, merged to a common inward-driving sphere; the spherical detonation wave crossed into the second shell of solid fast Composition B and accelerated; hit the wall of dense uranium tamper and became a shock wave and squeezed, liquefying, moving through; hit the nickel plating of the plutonium core and squeezed, the small sphere shrinking, collapsing into itself...
Many of the paved roads in Kenya are crumbling. They look as if a large tar-eating animal had been chewing at them from the shoulders, inward toward the center line. A vehicle therefore speeds demonically down the dead center of a two-lane road, like a rhino charging. The driver waits until the last instant to flick the steering wheel to the left (British rules, drive on the left -- Did Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about...