Word: pit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treat Asian-Americans just as we treat all the other ethnic groups," she says. "[The process] is fair to every individual who applies. We don't pit people against each other and we don't have any quotas...
...This gets to be like a giant mosh pit. People yell [and] raise their hands...
...Newt Gingrich Memorial Steerage Compartment, back behind the Secret Service, where they keep the crates of live chickens, the goats and the journalists--might have hoped to see the flesh and blood of democracy up close, but spent his time instead fantasizing a kind of Super Bowl that would pit the Soccer Moms against the Deadbeat Dads...
...advice is much better suited to us than the tired family values rhetoric of the one-sided contemporary political debate. Reich, we must remember, is the Secretary of Labor. He Understands work; he has spent much of his career thinking about work. As a result, Reich does not pit the soulless company man once again against the smiling, tanned familydad. Rather his portrait of the workaholic is sympathetic: "They love their job and find the world of spouse and kids harder to manage...
Washington's most senior Congressman combines hawkishness on military issues--he is a big supporter of funding for the B-2 fighter--with mainstream Democratic positions on social and economic issues. In a district where magnificent forests pit environmentalists and loggers against each other, Dicks has found a way to address both concerns by securing funds for economic diversification and worker retraining--winning elections in the process...