Word: oaklanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OAKLAND, California: Flying a 1935 Lockheed Electra 10E, San Antonio businesswoman Linda Finch set off on a journey to retrace Amelia Earhart's doomed around-the-world route, sixty years to the day after Earhart took off. Finch, an accomplished pilot with 20 years of experience flying and restoring historic aircraft, will make 30 stops in 20 countries during her 2 1/2 month trip, including Egypt, Greece, Pakistan and Australia. While the plane's cabin will remain unpressurized without oxygen tanks, technology will provide a safety margin to help prevent a duplication of Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will...
DIED. CHERYL WILSON-MINELLI, 30, former champion of TV's brutish American Gladiators; after her husband Juan Ernesto Minelli, 34, a former pro boxer, allegedly stabbed and bludgeoned her in a jealous rage; in Oakland Park, Florida. Minelli turned himself in and was arrested for homicide...
According to the President's office in Oakland, Carnesale will ,also receive vacation, sick leave and a retirement plan, plus life and comprehensive medical insurance valued at about $14,000 per year...
...when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...
...getting good jobs and leaving their impoverished neighborhoods. This seems like an increase in social fluidity by any definition. As a matter of fact, Ebonics was proposed primarily because it seemed to have been helping these kids. It was suggested, according to the Washington Post, because members of the Oakland School Board noticed that an Ebonics program in Oakland was already helping 3,000 African-American students make strides academically, at a rate faster than their classmates in the regular classes. Furthermore, the country's largest group of linguists, the 6,000-member Linguistic Society of America, unanimously voted...