Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's electronics giants are off and running in a race to dominate the predicted $40 billion market for high-definition television, the next- generation technology that will provide TV pictures as clear as a movie screen's. Last week Zenith Electronics, the only remaining major American manufacturer of TV sets, and AT&T, a power in microchip research, said they would pool their research to develop an HDTV system by 1993. Zenith will provide the broadcasting technology, and AT&T will provide the microelectronics...
...with incomes, educations and life-styles rivaling those of its white counterpart. For them, the passions and suffering of the civil rights struggle have culminated, as they were meant to, in the mundane pleasures and pangs of middle-class life. Theirs is the infrequently told success story of American race relations...
...feeling of alienation from the white majority with which they have so much in common, a sense that somehow they still do not quite fit in. They speak again and again of "living in two worlds." In one they are judged by their credentials and capabilities. In the other, race still comes first...
Despite commendable work on race relations and the support of black liberals like Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, statements like these -- and a generally conservative voting record -- could cripple Nunn if he seeks the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination. He considered running last year but pulled back primarily because his two children were still in school. "They'll have graduated by '92," says Bill Jerles, a Perry dentist and close friend. "Sam has those presidential thoughts in mind all the time...
...George Bush -- or the second, considering that the fight over John Tower has been cast as a Bush-Nunn feud. In 1975, when President Ford selected Bush to head the CIA, Nunn and Senator Henry Jackson were concerned that Ford was helping Bush audition for a future vice- presidential race, perhaps even with Ford on the '76 ticket. "We felt strongly that the CIA shouldn't be used that way," says Nunn, and "we forced Bush to renounce his ambition...