Word: partially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clan, young, affluent professionals are partial to particular brands of sneakers (Reebok) and cars (Saab). Recently the group discovered its own mortgage. The 15-year, fixed-rate home loan is favored by married couples in their 30s and 40s who together earn $60,000 or more. Virtually unknown a year ago, this new form of financing now accounts for more than 14% of all loans made by America's largest mortgage bankers...
What is the explanation for this murderousness? Why are blacks disproportionately represented as victims and victimizers, as predators and prey? One partial explanation, some experts contend, is the hopelessness that pervades the urban ghetto, which fosters a kind of street-corner nihilism, a feeling that nothing is worth anything. Says James M. Evans Jr., a social worker who organized a workshop last year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should...
...find, with Nixon when he was President, the solutions to some very important issues. I recall still further back in 1961 the meeting between Khrushchev and President Kennedy in Vienna. That was a very difficult time as well. There was the Caribbean crisis, yet in 1963 we saw the partial test-ban treaty. Even though that was again a time of crisis, the two sides and their leaders had enough wisdom and the boldness to take some very important decisions. History is very interesting in that way, when you attempt to draw lessons from...
...make the transition easily. Cal Tech Senior Hojin Ahn, 24, a native South Korean, arrived in Los Angeles three years ago able to read and write English proficiently. Last year Ahn compiled a better-than-perfect 4.1 grade average, among the highest at Cal Tech, and was awarded a partial scholarship for his senior year...
Today there are an estimated 300 periodicals serving immigrant readers. Yet that figure offers only a partial picture, since scores of papers are mom- and-pop operations that elude surveys. Many of the papers catering to Europeans have withered away, while the influx of Hispanics and Asians has ( given rise to dozens of new publications. The U.S. has six Spanish-language dailies, with a combined circulation of 325,000. There is a newspaper war of sorts in New York City, home to both the venerable El Diario/La Prensa (circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ...