Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonwhite, non-Asian minority communities across California, college prep is beginning younger and younger. It is a legacy of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California, and a reaction to the prospect of Hispanics' and blacks' vanishing from state campuses...
...Bradley elicited the strongest reaction Tuesday when he touted one of the few specific policies he has advocated during the campaign, a proposal to ban the sale of cheap handguns known as "Saturday night specials" and require registration for all handguns...
...Bradley elicited the strongest reaction Tuesday when he touted one of the few specific policies he has advocated during the campaign, a proposal to ban the sale of cheap handguns known as "Saturday night specials" and require registration for all handguns...
...million Medicare patients enrolled in their programs next year. Worse, some 250,000 Medicare patients would be dropped from HMO rolls altogether. The reason: The federal reimbursements for taking on Medicare patients are insufficient, said the industry. Medicare officials disagreed, but they limited their immediate public reaction to that of a muted ?disappointment? over a development that could seriously complicate President Clinton?s attempt to reform Medicare and expand its coverage to include prescription drugs...
This kind of work provides a vital, unseen ballast as Phoenix is rocked by Atkinson's murder and by the ugly reaction from some quarters that there should be a crackdown on "the Mexicans" who should be sent packing. What could be a breakdown in race relations is defused by a quiet, powerful counter-demonstration--a defining moment in city history...