Word: raced
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...although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally bars large employers from discriminating on grounds of race, sex, religion, or national origin, it does not cover employers with fewer than 15 employees, has a short statute of limitations and allows victims of discrimination only reinstatement with back pay. Under the Runyon decision, section 1981 protection was interpreted to apply to all private employers, regardless of size. And victims of discrimination have a right to punitive damages for outrageous violations...
...nice to win again and big," Harvard netman Rob Soni said. "Even though we're out of the Ivy race, we're still going to do our best against Princeton. We're looking to play the spoiler...
When he took the lead in the 1928 Republican presidential race by winning the New Hampshire primary, Herbert Hoover suddenly found his picture on the cover + of TIME. Historians may debate the impact of that distinction, but Hoover went on to occupy the White House. Since then, dozens of presidential hopefuls have appeared on the magazine's cover, with similarly unknowable results. "When TIME puts a candidate on the cover, we unavoidably become part of the political process," says Nation Editor Walter Isaacson, who edited this week's articles on Michael Dukakis and his New York Democratic-primary victory...
...record for most candidate covers in an election year was set in the tumultuous 1968 race: Democrats Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy each had a turn on the cover, as did Republicans Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, the eventual winner. The proliferation and unpredictability of primary elections have made us more cautious over the years. When Robert Dole took the Iowa caucuses last February, we wanted to see more evidence of his strength before making him a cover choice. Sure enough, Dole lost in New Hampshire to George Bush. The Vice President's 1988 campaign efforts...
...with virtually solid backing from New York's blacks and heavy support among Hispanics. To win, he still had to reach a significant bloc of white liberals and union members. Most of all, he had to hope that Gore would peel enough white votes from Dukakis to make the race competitive. Instead, Gore flopped utterly. He became a prisoner of his chief local patron, New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose vituperative attacks on Jackson further polluted the city's dense ethnic atmosphere and totally obscured Gore's own image. Local TV cameras repeatedly captured Gore looking bewildered, like...