Word: lightering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guidelines will make the burden of cancer lighter for those of us who have borne it or are bearing it," said Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, founder of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. "Pain is not an inevitability in cancer...
...Bensonhurst march, Sharpton wasprotesting the sentencing of a group of whiteteenagers accused of killing Black teenager YusufHawkins. Only one of the accused men was convictedof murder, the others received lighter sentences...
...workload wouldn't get lighter-the time for doing it would just get shorter. And people active in extracurricular activities would be forced to do their planning and work for next-semester projects (spring registration issues, for example) during reading and exam period as well...
...Connecticut last April, with five friends from a Buddhist youth group assisting him, Binh Gia Pham doused himself with gasoline, flicked a lighter and exploded into flames. The 43-year-old immigrant was protesting attempts by the Vietnamese government to suppress Buddhism...
...charges that he was an imaginative historian he replied, "There is little danger of long misleading here, for the champions of white folk are legion." Yet for all his insights, he was uneasy about his own identity. His writings are full of references to skin tone, the lighter the more becoming. "This subtext of proud hybridization is so prevalent," Lewis writes, "that the failure to notice it in the literature about him is as remarkable as the complex itself...