Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world cannot even spell his name, let alone know him. Is the planet so emaciated in human leadership--the Mother Teresas and Geraldine Ferraros--that we have to adulate the American dollar? Let's vote for Cap Weinberger. He will blow us up and make such further nominations unnecessary. MELVIN M. BELLI SR. San Francisco...
...Melvin H. King, an African-American, who for years was a Beacon Hill representative, threw his hat in the ring in 1986, expecting to capitalize on the minority vote...
...third of the African-American population. This milestone achievement, however, is easily misperceived and exaggerated. The black middle class still earns less, faces greater difficulty in securing occupational mobility, and faces greater risk of unemployment than otherwise comparable whites. Far more important, however, are four considerations. As sociologists Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro established in their award winning book, Black Wealth/White Wealth, the black middle class possess a fraction of the assets held by comparable whites. For example, the median level of wealth in white households they reported as $43,800, compared to only $3,700 in black households...
...year for increased contact between the nations, journalists were eager to cast the wrestlers? visit as a sweatier equivalent of the ?ping-pong diplomacy? between the U.S. and China in the early '70s. The team certainly appears to have been well prepared for its diplomatic mission: Said one member, Melvin Douglas of Arizona, ?I know not to walk on carpets with your shoes, I know not to look at the women. Basically, I won't do nothing wrong...
According to Melvin H. Singleton, a demonstrator from Watertown, the main goal of the marchers was to "raise awareness of the disastrous consequences of American foreign policy and persuade American citizens to reflect of killing in Iraq...