Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David Halberstam's engaging account of the 1949 season proves both these mythic profiles to be absolutely accurate. That year the pennant race between the two teams came down to the very last game. Of course the Sox lost it. They had done the same thing against the Cleveland Indians in a sudden-death playoff game the year before. Both teams were hobbled by injuries. But the Yankees had the poise and power...
...education, because racism is a scholarly pursuit. It's all over the world, I am convinced. But that's not the way people were born to live. I'm talking about racism that is taught, institutionalized. Everybody remembers the first time they were taught that part of the human race was Other. That's a trauma. It's as though I told you that your left hand is not part of your body...
While Jones was qualifying for bigger and better meets, Captain Elizabeth Ross finished her career this weekend, finishing fourth in the semifinal heat of the 400-meter hurdles race, crossing the finish line...
...will be under pressure to root out bias among individuals making important personnel decisions. "The court is saying to employers they should examine their processes and make sure they have objective standards," says Douglas McDowell of the Equal Employment Advisory Council. "Supervisors must be properly trained to ensure that race and sex aren't part of the decision- making process." Such changes in attitude may already be under way at Price Waterhouse. Referring to the embarrassing publicity generated by this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse, observes, "You couldn't have a better teaching example than...
Certainly not all autograph seekers are innocents. A collector in England nearly kept sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner from a starting line last season. "I told him I would give him an autograph after the race," she said, "but he grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go." Reggie Jackson often conducted debates of this kind with his public, including a beery brawl in Milwaukee that escalated when a shredded Jackson autograph got sprinkled on his french fries...