Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. Its annual income is $3.3 million. Below the surface, however, there are signs of weakness. Membership has slipped by 16% from its 1963 peak, and many remaining members are inactive. While the convention saw no serious attempts by young militants to take over, the reason was that many young people had already quit. To stop such attrition, the N.A.A.C.P. needs more help from white America. The organization must show that its reasoned approach can still satisfy black ambitions at an acceptably rapid pace. Whether that can be done remains in doubt...
Five of the reservation's neediest families were chosen at random for the hous es. Once selected, however, the families had to be talked into accepting the new homes. One reason for their reluctance was that the relatively luxurious housing is bound to cause jealousy and antagonism on the part of the other 45 families. Besides, without electricity and with a constant firewood shortage, the dwellings will be impossible to heat...
...Bible says the reason that the flood came was that lawlessness had spread all over the world and sensuality had spread all over the world. Jesus said, "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be when the Son of Man comes back." He said there would be a worldwide rebellion. Well, we see that going on now. He said that there would be an obsession with sex at the end of history, and we see all of that going...
Burger's decision, reached before he was sworn in as Chief Justice, revoked the license of WLBT-TV of Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate. The reason: racial discrimination in programming. The station, owned by the Lamar Life In surance Co., had been accused of permitting racial slurs on the air, excluding news of Jackson's 40% Negro population and cutting off network news reports of civil rights activities...
...most of us, but an accident of birth. We belong to different faiths because the ancestors of each accepted the faith of the community where they happened to live, and we in turn accepted without question the faith of our family. Thoughtful people know there is no reason to believe their religion is the one true religion...