Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort at dialogue with society at large, such as that which Spike Lee has attempted to generate with his latest film Do the Right Thing, has got to be pursued now more than ever. Otherwise, today's subtler version of white racism will continue to go unnoticed, and more poor, uneducated Blacks will respond to their economic plight with the much publicized alternative that seems the easiest way out--turning to drugs...
Menem also helped restore the battered national psyche by joining world-renowned soccer star Diego Maradona and the top Argentine players in a benefit game to help the poor...
...Meyer said the referendum would give poor people a shot at the "American dream" by offering them the opportunity to buy a home...
...poor woman of color to get ahead in life if she can't buy her own home?" Meyer said. "When in Cambridge, you can't buy your own apartment, you're preventing people from the American way of saving...
...jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region, politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking questions, the farmer said to me, 'Whose side are you on, the environmentalists' or ours?' " That question, Maier knew, has no simple answer...