Word: passes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head basketball coach, John Chaney, called the NCAA a "racist organization." Dale Brown, head basketball coach at Louisiana State, said, "What they're saying is, 'We have a colored fountain here, a white fountain there. We'll allow you to drink out of the white fountain if you pass this test...
...beef -- fatty, mostly bone and covered in grimy cellophane -- priced at $1.60 per lb. I stand in line for 14 minutes and buy a 2-lb. package of beef. There had been some sugar that morning, an employee informs me, and there may be some in the afternoon. I pass an outdoor state fruit stand that will not open for nearly an hour. Seventeen people are already in line, waiting for prized tangerines...
After a proposed license-renewal law aimed at the elderly foundered on charges of age discrimination, Florida enacted regulations ordering all new residents, regardless of age, to pass both written and driving tests. "There's a great need to gradually restrict licensing," says Jane Lange, director of the medical-review program for Arizona's department of motor vehicles. "People age at different rates, so, ideally, it should be done on a case-by-case basis...
...small convoy of Toyota Landcruisers escorted by armed rebels threads its way over a mountain pass in northern Ethiopia. In the vehicles are members of a European medical team on their way to staff a hospital in territory captured by guerrillas. Thousands of miles away another medical corps travels with a caravan of packhorses through rugged terrain into Afghanistan. There its members will treat victims of the war between the Afghan resistance and the Soviet-backed government. At a headquarters building in Paris, shortwave-radio antennas turn toward Africa. A faraway voice reports that a cholera epidemic has struck refugees...
Reagan has often relied on such patriotic appeals to try to win over the American people. Judging by his relatively high ratings in public opinion polls and his reputation as the Great Communicator, he remains successful. But if Reagan really thinks he can pass off his unabashed jingoism as substantive and worthy of a presidential farewell speech, he is gravely mistaken...