Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennebunkport was not always a summer mob scene. When Bush's maternal grandfather George Herbert Walker built his house in 1903, the town was a quiet refuge for well-heeled gentry from New York and Boston. They built sprawling "cottages" along Ocean Avenue and played tennis at the River Club...
One of the major reasons Bryant's plantation is not a fast-eroding cow pasture is that he got help from an environmental group called Anai (which means "friend" in the language of the local Bribri Indians). "We probably wouldn't still be farming if it wasn't for these...
He writes that "Israel was never supposed to be just another nation," but rather a "light unto nations." The United Nations resolution equating Zionism with racism illustrates the dangers of this false premise, by treating Jewish nationalism as inherently unequal to other national movements worldwide. Had Israel's founders believed...
Ultimately, of course, it is hard to find unequivocal grounds on which to condemn the clubs. Benign discrimination on the basis of sex is commonplace in our society: Radcliffe denies its externship programs programs and grant money (as well as its diploma) to males, the varsity football squad rejects aspiring...
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management. Known by critics as the Assistant Secretary for Oil, this official will help decide whether to continue such controversial Reagan policies as the sale of wilderness areas and extension of oil-drilling rights off the coasts and Alaska's North...