Word: racisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...possession. A Washington Post poll shows Barry, now a city councilman, leading the D.C. mayor's race with 38 percent, 12 points ahead of challenger John Ray and 22 points above Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly. While many black voters think Barry's trial made him a martyr to white racism, TIME senior correspondent Jack E. White says Kelly's recent municipal floundering has brought nostalgia for the '80s mayor: "The main thing is, he's remembered as a guy whom the city functioned better under for poor people. They want to go back to the good old days...
...said many undergraduates' complaints about foreign teachers stemmed from xenophobia and racism rather than legitimate difficulties with their TF's English...
...There are always people who aren't going to make the effort to understand What someone's saying," said Andrew Robertson, a second year graduate student in the History of Science Department. "Frankly, there is an element of racism that is just barely covered up by the excuse of students' interests...
...rumors grow that he will retire, Police Chief Paul E. Johnson sits atop a department which over the past 12 months has been overwhelmed by internal disarray accused of racism and tarnished by a botched investigation into an alleged theft by two security guards...
...National Front, led by the anti-immigration populist Jean-Marie Le Pen. He has led the party to a solid 10% vote in a series of elections dating back to 1988, despite a penchant for crude crematorium quips, a reportedly secret admiration for Hitler and a not-so-secret racism. The extreme-right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they lost it again but, encouraged, the B.N.P. together with a handful of other...