Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time has not come, he said, for the government to trust that people will behave fairly on matters of race. His comparison of affirmative action to the Americans with Disabilities Act rang true. Just as we don't guarantee disabled Americans a job, but we promise them a ramp so that they can get to the interview, we assure all Americans, that regardless what color their skin is, they will be recruited and considered as workers, students and leaders. Dole failed to convince me that anything but the "long arm of the federal government" can keep America fair...
...double-edged: "It takes away other people's opportunities. It changes their expectations. It makes them accommodate me first." There is a bittersweet quality even to some of the good things gained. The first day he got back to his Williamstown home, "I parked myself on a ramp. It was a beautiful, cool afternoon, and I just looked up at the mountains for about two hours and felt very, very peaceful." Then he adds, "These are things that I thought I would learn to do when...
...fanatic or a mischief maker--the cause is buried by the effect. A bomb is like the physical equivalent of an insinuation--an anonymous, handwritten note that says, "Just when you thought you were safe..." Terror now lurks in the shadows like a stranger in a dark ramp behind the parade of nations...
...Olympics are rightfully criticized for their commercialism, but from the time the American delegation proceeded down the ramp, NBC went an hour without a commercial. Indeed, the ceremonies went by in a flash: the remarks by Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games president Billy Payne and International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch ("Atlanta, here we are!"), the proclamation ("I declare open the Games of Atlanta!") by President Clinton, the entrance of the Olympic flag, a tribute to Atlanta's Rev. Martin Luther King, the introduction of past Olympians...
Then came the climax of the torch lighting. The final Olympic torchbearer had been a closely guarded secret. Two former Olympians, American boxer Evander Holyfield and Greek track star Voula Patoulidou, ran around the track together and handed off to U.S. swimmer Janet Evans. She ran up the ramp and passed the torch to a large man emerging from the shadows. As Cassius Clay, he had won the light-heavyweight gold medal in Rome, and as Muhammad Ali, he became the most famous athlete in the world. But a lifetime of blows has left him with Parkinson's syndrome...