Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oilers are at home. Temporarily down to a solitary goaltender, awaiting a replacement from the minor leagues, they have recruited an Edmonton policeman, Floyd Whitney, for a practice session. "You're the target today, eh?" one of the stubbly giants greets Whitney reassuringly, as the Stanley Cup champions slide sleepily onto their indoor pond. Despite a proliferation of Europeans, hockey players still tend to be white, toothless Canadians from small, picturesque places, who skated to grammar school on iced-over footpaths until diverted during high school to the big city, where they enjoy drinking beer and occasionally throwing each other...
...pundits, retains a faint similarity to English but is actually closer to Latin. Like Latin, it is primarily a written language, prized for its incantatory powers, and is best learned early, while the mind is still supple. Every cub reporter, for instance, knows that fires rage out of control, minor mischief is perpetrated by Vandals (never Visigoths, Franks or a single Vandal working alone) and key labor accords are hammered out by weary negotiators in marathon, round-the- clock bargaining sessions, thus narrowly averting threatened walkouts. The discipline required for a winter storm report is awesome. The first reference...
...methods and studies involving women. Nevertheless, it is an academic approach which interested students ought to be allowed to follow, and we agree with those who support the establishment of a degree-granting committee, similar to Social Studies or to History and Literature, set up to allow students to "minor" in the field, allying it with another basic department. Such a program would provide several introductory courses, surveying the range of women's studies disciplines. One such course already exists in General Education 100, "Introduction to Women's Studies," but this overwhelmingly popular offering is only taught in alternate...
Bausano, however, in an interview before the tournament had a realistic view of his chances, stating that it would have been a "minor miracle" to place in his 167-1b weight class...
...Black South African workforce, and even if they treated their employees fairly, which they, do not, they could not change South Africa through workplace reforms. When an armored car smashes a squater's shock, it does so on American-supplied oil. When the South African police throw a minor in jail for visiting his wife and family without a pass, they obtain his name from an American computer. When the South African government makes plans for energy independence, it counts on American petro-chemical technology. When white South Africans are anxious about their future, American businessmen offer assurances that...