Word: movement
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...LUCK The bad luck of historical accident is what has left most current claimants out in the cold. To change that, you need to be in the right movement at the right time in the right place. The Kurds in northern Iraq were just another bunch of bickering agitators until the U.S. needed them to challenge Saddam Hussein. No one cared a whit for the Kosovars until Slobodan Milosevic ground them into the dirt. (It obviously helps to be the victim of a reviled dictator.) But Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka: Your moment has yet to arrive...
...rise in drug spending is beginning to have political repercussions. A movement is under way at the federal and state levels to bring about cheaper prescription drugs, an effort that could help the lower-cost generics. Bills are pending in several states, including California, to force drug companies to discount products for seniors. In Congress, a bipartisan commission will probably attempt to get Medicare to reverse its policy against paying for prescriptions, which could also favor the generics...
DIED. JOSE QUINTERO, 74, Panamanian-born Tony Award-winning theater director and founder of Circle in the Square, a group credited with sparking the off-Broadway movement; of cancer; in New York City. Quintero was best known for his devotion to the dramas of Eugene O'Neill. Often working with Jason Robards, Quintero directed more than a dozen of O'Neill's works, including the original Broadway production of Long Day's Journey into Night...
...swollen river of death that claimed thousands during the post-Reconstruction period and into the first decades of this century. But the mid-century lynching of the child Emmett Till became one of the tributaries that fed into a different kind of river, the flood of the civil rights movement...
...immigration,'" notes Mark Potok of Klanwatch. "They are learning to use issues that have real resurgence among white Americans." Many white supremacists have moved into antigovernment "patriot" groups that (publicly, at least) attack gun control instead of blacks and Jews. Y2K fears and the spread of the Christian Identity movement, which counts whites as the chosen people, have also helped growth...