Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists," brought him along with his new family. Three other young children stayed behind with their mother, Bui's first wife. Bui's own mother and a brother who teaches school in Saigon also refused to leave. Once in the U.S., Dr. Bui encountered only one major setback. The first time he tried, he failed his national licensing exam. But after taking a three-month review with emphasis on reading English, he passed in December 1977 with the highest grade given that session in the state of Arkansas...
Though black voter registration still lags badly, there are now 170 black mayors in cities across the country, including such major urban centers as Atlanta, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Detroit and Washington. Marion Barry, Washington's mayor-elect, and his chief deputy, Ivanhoe Donaldson, began their careers as militants in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. Says Barry: "The times have changed and I have changed. I always knew it was better to make policy than to influence it. Electoral politics is just a tool, like non-violent direct action was a tool...
...page assessment of the University's financial picture brought anything but good tidings for the holidays. Harvard is suffering from the ill side-effects of inflation, which "continued to be the major financial problem facing Harvard," the report notes...
...experiences in innumerable petty situations will attest, Harvard is hardly just a liberal arts college. To act as if Harvard College equals Harvard University--and that undergraduate opinion and requirements should be satisfied above all else--is to choose to ignore part of Harvard's basic nature as a major scientific and research institution...
...really a shame that Klemesrud has buried the only constructive comment in her article. Wilma Scott Heide hasn't bitten Klemesrud's poison, and says, "The country's values are still white-male oriented rather than feminist. Men are getting some pressure to include women in major roles, so what roles do they give them--T. and A. (Tits and Ass). It shows that sexism is deeper than many people seem to realize and that men's ideas of giving women prominence is obviously still very narrow...