Word: racially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newest structure in town is Maranatha Baptist Church, result of a schism precipitated in the Plains Baptist Church by a racial dilemma in the wake of Jimmy's election. The newest organic matter seems to be a small garden given by the citizens of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In a chill evening wind, the shrubs seem afflicted and huddled in gloom along streets as empty as Sagebrush at midnight. And, I discover as hunger mounts, Faye has closed her restaurant and moved the mobile home. The old Plains may be buried past finding...
...plaques here, I also smell the first spoor of real life; and the fact that two black policemen and one black councilman work across the street in the town headquarters makes for further fine tuning. (I recall, for instance, that "nigger" in many Anglo-Southern mouths is not a racial insult, but a dialect noun, one used for at least four centuries...
...deep shifts sensed and regretted by natives are attributable not to one local boy but to history. The outspoken Carters may have speeded ventilation; but the bleeding holes in the oldest foundations are the same holes rammed everywhere in America by swelling population, the spread of wealth, racial change, and an active central Government. Round every hole, the citizens of Plains see what we all see-the quick dissolution of ancient ties of blood, faith and money: the primal mortar of society...
...former chairperson of the SAC, said yesterday that "all constituencies" of the University should assist in designing a set of criteria for potential donors. Dayton said that a set of guidelines would both have to "incorporate the fundamental principles of the University, such as commitment to human rights and racial equality, and frame an approach to fundraising that offers clarity and security to potential donors...
...shooting off a rocket and having nothing left we can do." In order to identify the proper way to take such a momentous step as a shareholder resolution, the ACSR distinguishes between "action" and "information" resolutions. The ACSR considers the former, which asks companies to take steps to further racial progress in South Africa, "relatively ineffective." The latter type--considerably more effective we are to infer, and thus the ACSR's preferred type of shareholder resolution--merely asks for more information from companies operating in South Africa about what they're doing there. But the ACSR hasn't told...