Word: minority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years, Harvard has remained stubbornly resistant to the demands of the sizable number of its students seeking an ethnic studies program, making only begrudging, minor concessions...
Thinking that the UHS orthopedist would still have my X-rays, I rode the elevator up to the fifth floor. He didn't. The receptionist explained that I needed to go to the basement where X-rays are done. Normally, this would have been merely a minor annoyance, but boy, was I woozy. The UHS elevator does that...
...greatest and most terrible of wars ended, this week, in the echoes of an enormous event--an event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. The knowledge of victory was as charged with sorrow and doubts, as with joy and gratitude. More fearful responsibilities, more crucial liabilities rested on the victors even than on the vanquished...
...wouldn't even care if I was covering a minor league baseball team in Kansas," Gupta says. "I'd love to continue doing this for a couple years before going to law school...
First, let us travel to America's finest country clubs and a courtroom in Eugene, Oregon. Casey Martin is a young professional golfer on the Nike Tour, the professional Golf Association's (PGA) equivalent of the minor leagues. Martin also has a rare circulatory disorder that makes it difficult for him to walk long distances. Now, that presents a problem, since tournament golf courses usually top 7,000 yards. Martin can play a round of golf, however, if he rides in a golf cart, a practice strictly prohibited by the PGA. Martin decided that the PGA needed to show...