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...Scotts and Sleds are stark reminders that despite the enormous civil rights gains of the past three decades, even the rawest forms of racism persist. Reports to the Community Relations Service of the Justice Department indicate that racial incidents nationwide increased by 55% from 1986 to 1987, and more than 400% since 1980. In the first six months of 1988, racial incidents against blacks were recorded in at least 20 states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. There were 4,500 housing-discrimination complaints last year in the U.S., up from 3,000 in 1980. Racism is most likely...
...Massachusetts firm beats out the Beretta for this contract, the Army would wind up with two incompatible handguns. "It's absolutely ridiculous," contends an aide to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin. "It's the rawest of pork...
...time Harvard alums this year was, in all likelihood, the treatment students accorded Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 at his Sanders Theatre appearance in the fall. It certainly wasn't good news from their perspective, reports of the heckling and efforts to shout down Weinberger touched the rawest fears of campus disorder inspired by the experience of the 1960s...
AFTER WORLD WAR II, the sickening realization of what had taken place in concentration camps turned world opinion against the rawest form of anti-Semitism. Like the Southern bigots who were forced to don the robes and hoods of KKK to carry out their lynchings and burnings with impunity,. Jew-haters after the Holocaust could not practice their bigotry without assuming some sort of disguise...
...third round of 1979. Montana's reputation as a hot-and-cold player intrigued Walsh: "If he can have one hot game, why not two, why not three?" This man knows something about quarterbacks. As an assistant in Cincinnati and San Diego, he once took the rawest rookie and fashioned Anderson, and later found a floundering failure and made Dan Fouts. When he got his first N.F.L. coaching job three years ago, it was overdue...