Word: largest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest barrier to opportunity isn't the Ku Klux Klan, but the White House. Ronald Reagan has been a steadfast opponent of the Civil Rights movement, while Vice President George Bush has shamelessly backed his hostile stance...
...apparent modesty of their dream is illusory. David and Harriet take on the burden of four children in six years with insufficient means and experience. They survive mainly with money from David's parents and help from Harriet's mother Dorothy. Still, they manage to achieve the largest part of their dream, a huge house that becomes the place for the family to congregate...
...unconventional and antiwhite doctrines propounded by Founder Elijah Muhammad, the group has shed those teachings and gained recognition by mainstream Islam. With these trends and their high birthrate, U.S. Muslims are expected to surpass Jews in number and, in less than 30 years, become the country's second largest religious community, after Christians...
...quietly expanding scope of American Islam has become evident only as the result of new research. At a symposium at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Carol Stone, a doctoral student at Indiana University, estimated that there are 4,644,000 U.S. Muslims, with the largest concentration in California. The large majority of U.S. adherents are not affiliated with a mosque, but this is not for lack of opportunity. UMASS Historian Yvonne Haddad, who organized the Amherst sessions, counts more than 600 Islamic centers across...
...cold" -- hibernating, slow moving. Now he and the other hunters will sell them for $3 per lb. at Sweetwater's 30th Annual Rattlesnake Roundup. The town's Jaycees, who organize the roundup as a community fund raiser, claim that of some 40 in the country, theirs is the largest and oldest, drawing crowds of 8,000 a day. They expect to clear about $40,000 from the take at the door and the sale of skins, meat and venom...