Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waits out the time until July 27, she will probably retain her high popularity nevertheless. But if she issues the Executive Order, she will be held responsible, favorably or negatively, for a program that can hardly hope to please all concerned...
...Nevertheless, he waited for a job that wouldallow him "to gain a perspective on politics" and"keep in touch with my colleagues and the issuesof the day." For Thornburgh, the IOP position wasthe perfect job. He even turned down an offer byPresident Reagan to become Director of the FBIbecause "it was a 10-year commitment I wasn'tready to make...
...Nevertheless, Smith took the stand to give an emotional account of the experiences that led her father, a soft-spoken welder at the Santa Fe railroad yards and assistant pastor of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church, to join the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal struggle against segregation. She described the "feelings of inferiority" suffered by her children because they attended schools that were considered "black" though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with...
...many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes. Neither slaves nor women could hold office, serve on juries, or bring suit in their own names . . . It is true, of course, that the position of women . . . has improved markedly in recent decades. Nevertheless, it can hardly be doubted that . . . women still face pervasive . . . discrimination in our educational institutions, on the job market and, perhaps most conspicuously, in the political arena...
These geographical conditions conspired to provincialize American culture. Today, no colonial weather vane or goffering iron fails to find its collectors, and the productions of traveling limners evoke an enthusiasm that might once have seemed excessive for Gainsborough. Nevertheless, most American towns looked more like Dogpatch than Williamsburg, and none of them could have been confused with Bath. The best American minds, like Thomas Jefferson, were by no means unaware of this. Jefferson in the early 1780s complained that many of the buildings in Virginia's capital of Williamsburg were rude, misshapen piles "in which no attempts are made...