Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fences with Hollywood's TV producers, many of whom have become disenchanted with CBS. "I want to make this a place where we can talk about ideas, new ways of doing things," he says. Given the network's unprecedented third-place finish in last season's prime-time ratings race, he is going to need all the good ideas he can muster...
...voting for the Chamber of Deputies gave the P.R.I. 260 of the 500 seats, well short of the two-thirds plurality required to make constitutional changes. In the Senate, Cardenas' forces captured four of the 64 seats, marking the first time ever the P.R.I. has lost even a single race in that chamber...
...country, Atlanta has been a national city for a very long time -- not just the headquarters of the movement but a center of black education and place where black people amassed capital early on and developed a solid and prosperous middle class. Atlanta didn't make its progress in race relations because of any blissful absence of bigotry -- it has always had its full share of violent racism -- but because an organized and resourceful black community constantly pushed a white leadership that was at least pragmatic. Now it is said to be a land of opportunity for black managers...
Republicans, worried that they may lose the White House for the first time since 1980, have gone on the attack. "We're going into this thing very scared," said Representative Don Sundquist (R-Tenn). "I think we have to assume it's gonna be a tough race, and we must do everything...
...Dell, like many other Jackson supporters, did not say his support for Dukakis would be enthusiastic. "Why do we have to be enthusiastic? We're going to work for [Dukakis]. We're going to be pressing for what the Democratic voters voted for: an end to the arms race" and other Jackson themes...