Word: quilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spirit of service is sweeping this country and giving us a chance to put the quilt of America together in a way that makes strength out of diversity; that lifts us up out of our problems; and that keeps our people looking toward a better and brighter future," Clinton said. "This is going to be your program at your level with your people...
America thinks of itself as a diverse society -- a "gorgeous mosaic," in the words of New York City Mayor David Dinkins; a quilt of many ethnic and racial patches, in a favorite metaphor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's. But the figures of the 1990 census, only now crunched, suggest that the demographic surface of life in the U.S. is a lot smoother than one thinks. So is the cultural surface, unless the politicians ruffle...
...America's Western forests. During his confirmation hearings, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, the former Arizona Governor, had to run a gauntlet of Western Senators who left the impression that the government has unreasonably locked up vast tracts of forest. All it takes, however, is a flight over the tattered quilt of arbitrary-looking patches that remain of the Pacific Northwest's forests to refute bland assurances of responsible stewardship...
...election since 1960, race was not an issue. Partly he achieved this by shying away from being cast as the tribune for the poor and blacks. Now he faces the more exalted challenge of acting affirmatively to heal the racial and cultural tensions that have frayed America's social quilt...
...began as a simple remembrance of those who have succumbed to the deadly disease. But the AIDS Memorial Quilt, unfolded in its entirety near the Washington Monument over Columbus Day, has become a vast and stirring memorial to HIV victims. Started in 1987 by the San Francisco-based Names Project, the quilt stretches over 15 acres. It contains 21,000 decorated panels from 29 countries, each bearing the name of an individual who died of AIDS. Altogether it represents 2% of all AIDS victims. Total worldwide deaths from the disease: 501,272, more than a third of them...