Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with admirable brevity. What Cotton does not seem to understand, though, is that affirmative action is not about some amorphous thing called diversity. Instead, it is about social and political power. Simply put, the idea is that people who get more education have more say about the issues that matter to them...
...donors decided that the chair would not beappropriately used in that matter so this proposalbecame a dead letter," he said...
...just fend off attacks. He absorbs them and grows stronger. A week ago Sunday night, the White House was braced for its worst week since Monica One. Kathleen Willey's story of Clinton's groping her near the Oval Office was widely known, so the fear was not a matter of new details emerging in her 60 Minutes interview. The fear was of flesh and blood, a soft voice, a string of pearls, downcast eyes, violated modesty, the image of a loyal Democrat who when she was in trouble came one November day to the Oval Office seeking help...
...unfavorable. But the President knows well that the press's attention span -- like that of the American public -- is famously short. By the time the months of closed-door legal wrangling are over, the Nixonesque ugliness of the move, like every other aspect of the scandal, may eventually become matter-of-fact...
...larger-than-life exercise in musical oratory that bears the same relationship to "normal" cello playing that one of Chuck Close's jumbo portraits does to a black-and-white snapshot. Ma's strong, sensitive playing falls somewhere between these two expressive poles, but it isn't a matter of splitting the difference: each set is a priceless document...