Word: kowtowing
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...conclusions that few people would disagree with (war is terrible, racism is evil). Johnson is a less obvious subject and in some ways more complicated. Blackness is about race, even more blatantly than Baseball or Jazz, and yet Johnson was not self-consciously a racial hero. He would not kowtow to racists, but he also rebuffed Tuskegee Institute president Booker T. Washington and other black community leaders who chided him for fraternizing with whites...
...MSNBC, meanwhile, the host of “The Abrams Report” Dan Abrams featured a segment on the trial every day until its culmination. Thankfully, network news and the mainstream newspapers have largely refrained from over-covering the case. Yet even these organizations have been forced to kowtow to the pressures of the “alternative” media and cover his guilty verdict. On NBC, for instance, Tom Brokaw featured the verdict prominently on his nightly news program and Dateline aired an hour-long special on the case...
...access points on campus. It doesn’t need to—it has 100 percent coverage. Every square foot of Dartmouth soil is within reach of that college’s wireless network. Harvard is bigger than Dartmouth, and we have more professional schools to which we kowtow and more red tape to wade through. Still, a policy through which students provide their own access is more or less free (perhaps modulo the cost of hiring an additional couple user assistants to offset the time spent dealing with whatever small number of problems arise when people...
...March ? Roh's troubled relationship with the U.S.?he vowed during his election campaign not to "kowtow" to his main ally?is further shaken when he sends an inexperienced diplomatic team to Washington for talks on North Korea...
...Meanwhile, Roh was offering assurances that "nothing will change drastically" in the Seoul-Washington relationship. "I'm not anti-American," he said during the election campaign. "I just don't think we need to kowtow to the U.S." South Korea's new President will soon have a chance to show if that means his nation can lead instead of follow...