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...really are a special case. That there are other injustices to other groups in society is undoubtedly true, but they are nothing like on the level of injustices that were done to a group that was actually enslaved. So I think affirmative action allows women and Hispanics to ride piggyback on the injustices done to the Blacks, without having to make a substantial argument on their...
...will glide the 100-ton craft to the first shuttle landing on the new three-mile-long runway at the Kennedy Space Center, with President Reagan looking on. Thus Challenger, which was prepared for flight in a record 63 days, will avoid the long and expensive cross-country piggyback haul that followed previous touchdowns on the Western deserts. The price for the convenience is far less room for error on landing...
Despite Lewis' arrest and his alleged connection to the Tylenol extortion, police admitted they had no evidence to prove that he did more than piggyback on the notoriety of the deaths. Says Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek: "It appears unlikely Lewis will ever be linked to the seven murders...
...arch, both labels can be saddled with suggestions of inflexible fanaticism. To speak of a pacifist or peacemaker as a peacenik is, through a single syllable, to smear someone with the suspicion that he has alien loyalties. The antifeminist who wishes for his (or her) prejudice to go piggyback on his (or her) language will tend to speak not of feminists but of fern-libbers. People with only limited commitments to environmental preservation will tend similarly to allude not to environmentalists but to eco-freaks...
Exactly 16 days after its fiery liftoff, the space shuttle Columbia last week reappeared in the Florida skies. This time it was only a piggyback passenger, riding on a Boeing 747. The coast-to-coast flight required an overnight refueling stop in Oklahoma. As a result, the ship that circled the earth in 90 minutes and plunged back into the atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound took a full day to complete the final lap of its epic journey...