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Word: raced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Blacks have been debating changing the race's identity to African-American, as suggested by the Rev. Jesse Jackson two months...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: What's in a Name? | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

...Shattuck report calls on Bush to revamp the classification system and reduce the existing system of export controls and other related restrictions regarding the dissemination of unclassified scientific and technical information. It comes at a crucial time, when the United States is falling behind in the race to develop new technology...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: Self-Defeating Secrecy | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

...only have such policies represented a substantial threat to academic freedom, they have also hindered national security. Broad controls on scientific and technological information have proven extremely damaging to the American economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Doctoroff, | Title: Self-Defeating Secrecy | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

...least a century now, Blacks have sought an identifier which truly defined a diverse race of people and their past. Blacks have answered to colored, Negro (with and without the capital N), Afro-American and, of course, Black...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: What's in a Name? | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

Blacks have intermarried and have had children of mixed race. Should these people, with an even split of, say, African and European ancestry, be considered as African-Americans only? This would force people who are part Black and part white to choose between their identities, and to deny part of what they...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: What's in a Name? | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

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