Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrat Ray Mabus was hailed as the new face of Mississippi politics when he was elected Governor in 1987 -- a 39-year-old Harvard grad who vowed to fight racism and improve his state's decrepit public schools. But with his reform package thwarted by a stubborn legislature and the state economy sliding, Mississippi voters booted Mabus out in favor of Kirk Fordice, a Vicksburg building contractor who had never before sought political office. Fordice, 57, became Mississippi's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction largely by attacking Mabus for failing to deliver on his promises. But the Republican also played...
Last week's city elections may not have been as exciting as a Harris Wofford upset or as emotional as a Ray Flynn landslide, but they had a character that was distinctly Cambridge...
...MEDIA SHOWER Magic with adulation, it's easy to imagine that the roadblocks to AIDS education have been cleared. But obstacles remain. Obstacles like Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, a Democrat, who earlier this week told The Boston Globe that "I personally don't see how [distributing condoms in schools] is going to stop the spread of AIDS...Are we encouraging sex and therefore allowing further spread of the AIDS virus? That's something to be very concerned about, I think...
...Ray Cleere, Mississippi's higher education commissioner, concedes that "there are program disparities" between the black colleges and the predominantly white ones. He argues they are not attributable to race, but to the "high-cost, highly prestigious programs" that have traditionally been based at the larger schools. "All of our colleges," he adds, "are equitably and consistently underfunded at the same level." Mississippi argues that there is no need for further remedies against past bias, beyond aggressive recruitment efforts aimed at minorities that are already under way at the formerly white schools...
...minute into the third session, junior Matt Mallgrave raced down the right side and slapped a hard shot into the upper right net past USA netminder Ray LeBlanc. Mallgrave's tally knotted the game...