Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston-based political consultant Michael Goldman said the governor's victory left him strongly positioned for a run in the South. He said Gephardt is nearly out of money and Simon is all but out of the race. Goldman said the crowded field actually helped the governor by preventing any one candidate from garnering an anti-Dukakis vote...
...Republican race, Bush led with 11 New Hampshire delegates, Dole seven, Kemp three and du Pont two. Those results would raise their national totals to 61 for Bush, 42 for Dole, 35 for Kemp and two for du Pont. In all, 1139 delegates are needed to win the Republican presidential nomination. Empty-handed yesterday, Robertson already had won eight delegates...
...charge of racial insensitivity that students have leveled against Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom is an unfortunate misinterpretation of his attitude toward race and ethnicity. But on the surface, criticisms of his treatment of racial issues in Historical Studies A-25 seem legitimate...
...right to take issue with him. However, there is something dangerous about this particular case because none of Thernstrom's statements throughout the course warranted this extreme reaction. Throughout the semester, he fulfilled his roles as teacher and scholar by fairly presenting the full range of viewpoints on race relations in America...
...Thernstrom presented material which may have seemed surprising or even unappealing in its unconventionality. For example, he cited the fact that Black earnings between the 1940's and 1980's grew almost twice as fast as white earnings, contradicting widelyheld theories that race relations during this period improved slowly. But his observations, while controversial, added a new dimension to the subject matter...