Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House. In a couple of leisurely circuits around the Rose Garden, Mills explained how many times Kennedy would have to say no and to whom. Kennedy's enthusiasm for tax reform waned. And in the end, his tax program centered on major tax cuts and very minor tax reforms...
Since January, three Cambridge police officers have been suspended because of incidents ranging from driving while intoxicated to sexual assault of a minor...
Since they are not members of the union, all minor leaguers will be compelled to take the tests, though cocaine is not a drug generally associated with smaller salaries. At that, urine sampling is common if not routine in the bush leagues already. The Hagerstown Suns, Baltimore's Class A farmhands, thought it hilarious that the commissioner's edict fell on the day of their regular checkup. "We'll standardize the tests, though," says Ueberroth, whose Olympic experience assures him that the results are dependable. Maybe, like helmets in hockey, the tests will become such a matter of course...
...keenly ambitious composer-arranger who is fixated on the memory of his mother's rape by white thugs. When these two potent wills clash, the bystander who suffers is, inevitably, one of their own and not a white oppressor. Episodic and slow but vividly real in portraying even minor characters, Ma Rainey marks the emergence of a substantial new voice for the theater...
...dope underground's problems were not over. Half an hour later, police in Florida City, a small town 25 miles to the south, stopped a Winnebago for a minor traffic violation and discovered 2,094 lbs. of marijuana inside. But that was only an hors d'oeuvre. Before long a second Winnebago was stopped. Inside were 31 duffel bags stuffed with more than a ton of cocaine, a record haul for town police. Admiring colleagues at the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington noted that the two tons of cocaine seized in one day, with a total value of more than...