Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball team for example leaves for Tampa today and is scheduled to play 10 games in eight days. Their competition includes six minor league professional terms among them farm teams for the Red Sox and Pirates...
...turned out to be in need of repeated pacification, was la solucion The use of the word "Negotiations", however abstract that use may have been, was la solucion. The election, although it ended with the ascension of a man. Roberto d' Aubuisson, essentially hostile to American policy (i.e. the minor attempts at reform) was la solucion for Americans...
...program aimed at rescuing Boston's battered public school system. The result of the labors of the Educational Planning Group (E.P.G.), a beanpot of school officials, local lawyers, politicians, housewives and neighborhood leaders of various ethnic and racial persuasions, will be issued this month. Says E.P.G. Counsel Hassan Minor, a former M.I.T. professor of public policy: "This effort is the last chance to get the schools together or they will be irretrievably lost...
...Reduce the number of school districts from nine to as few as four to provide a greater number of schools to choose among while abiding by desegregation rules. Says the E.P.G.'s Minor: "The sense of continuity is very important. If you live in one of these new districts, you can be pretty well assured that you can stay there from elementary through high school...
...playwright, Williams had the minor defects of his major virtues. He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed. Occasionally, his characters were too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols sometimes multiplied like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger was the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art, whose tendency has been to gaze inward and contemplate the artist's ego, as well as his navel, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Almost inevitably, he suffered the attrition of dramatic power that afflicts most...