Word: major
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...wrath of the Kosovar Albanians. Although NATO's KFOR peacekeepers have vowed to protect them, the understaffed force isn?t geared up to deal with low-level ethnic cleansing. Instead, Gypsies have been forced to abandon their homes and flee to makeshift refugee camps in some of the major Kosovo towns, where the peacekeepers are able to protect them...
...threat of inflation in the foreseeable future. It?s not an attractive investment because it offers no return, and the supply has grown despite falling demand, driving the price even lower." The best hope for the miners is an unforeseen catastrophe. "Right now it would take a major shock in the global economy and political system ?- such as a world war or the total collapse of a key economy ?- to give the gold price a bounce." Perhaps Russia could organize something...
...travel with sacrificial animals for satanic rituals?" G.O.P. Senator Strom Thurmond vowed to introduce legislation to stop the armed forces from condoning witchcraft. The Army shrugs at such complaints, saying it has no plans to shut down "minority religions." "This belief is protected under the First Amendment," says Major General William Dendinger, chairman of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board. In any case, as he points out, "very few members of the military practice these beliefs...
...from the values I was raised with--you should not bring a child into the world unless you were prepared to care for it; you had to be twice as good as whites; nothing less than an A was good enough." That erosion in values, Redwood believes, is a major cause of the "performance gap" that has undercut white support for affirmative action. "I believe that you should not expect anyone to help you until you've done everything you can to help yourself," says Redwood. "While we continue to fight against discrimination, we need to do whatever it takes...
Still, U.C. Irvine's major programs directly affect only a handful--about 3,500--of Santa Ana's 50,000 students; 80% of students still test below the mean in reading and 70% below in math. "You've got to be strategic and pick your classrooms," U.C. Irvine English professor Julia Lupton laments. "There are a lot of kids not getting reached." It would be difficult enough to get them to qualify under affirmative action, when schools could dip into lower test rungs to get promising students. With the end of those programs, however, the kids must slug...