Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After an exciting mile-relay victory, run in 3:20.64 by Horner, John Rowe, Gino Patrizio, and John Mee, Harvard led 70.5 to 69.5, and the meet came down to the final race, the men's two-mile relay...
...person who publicly condones anti-Semitism has no place in government. Those in government should not be willing to single out anybody for mistreatment because of their race or their religious background. Such practices deny citizens the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. The Bush administration cannot have someone with the potential to discriminate in the government, especially in a department which so directly touches individual lives...
...people follow the lead of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, "black" may become equally obsolete. Jackson declared last week that citizens of his race should henceforth be known as African Americans. "There are Armenian Americans and Jewish Americans and Arab Americans and Italian Americans," he explained. "Every ethnic group in this country has reference to some land base, some historical cultural base. African Americans have hit that level of cultural maturity...
...global warming has occurred, how much more is on the way and what the climatic consequences will be, giving policymakers an excuse for delay. But no one disputes the fact that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen and continues to increase rapidly and that the human race is thus conducting a dangerous experiment on an unprecedented scale. The possible consequences are so scary that it is only prudent for governments to slow the buildup of CO2 through preventive measures, from encouraging energy conservation to developing alternatives to fossil fuels...
...past decade. In India, according to government reports, 37% of the people cannot buy enough food to sustain themselves. Warned Shri B.B. Vohra, vice chairman of the Himachal Pradesh state land-use board in northern India: "We may be well on the way to producing a subhuman kind of race where people do not have enough energy to deal with their problems...