Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promoted as fast as their white counterparts," charges Ira Hadnot, a vice president of the Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit agency that has helped train 400 minority journalists. Black men fare even worse than black women, says Ernie Schultz, president of the Radio- Television News Directors Association, in part because "white males feel threatened by them...
...largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today, is often derided for its stingy management, but its record in affirmative action is the industry's best. Seven of the company's 89 daily papers are run by minority publishers. The company / strategy: every manager's bonus depends in part on how well affirmative-action goals are met. "When others were talking about a desire to launch training programs for minorities in management," says Jay Harris, executive editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, "Gannett was naming editors and publishers...
...Both novels drew deeply from her background in North Dakota, where her German-born father and Chippewa mother worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Erdrich's use of history, legend and experience was sophisticated. She is a 1976 graduate of Dartmouth, where her husband Michael Dorris, who is part Modoc, is a professor in the college's department of Native American studies. She has a master's degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins, a pocketful of literary awards and fellowships, and a seat on the executive board of the U.S. branch of PEN, the international writers' organization...
...short, Erdrich, 34, is not the sort of woolly regionalist who captivates critics with untamed energy and an earthy style. She seems to have a plan for her career; she obviously has a blueprint for her imagination. Although set in an earlier time, from 1912 to 1924, Tracks is part of a projected four-novel cycle that began with Love Medicine and The Beet Queen. Characters from the previous novels appear as youngsters in the new one. The narrative is again moved along by different voices carefully boxed in separate chapters...
Laub, 22, waived his right to appeal the decision to a jury trial as part of a joint recommendation from Assistant District Attorney Clea Andreadis and Laub's lawyer, Ronald P. Locke...