Word: renewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think tank associated with Newt Gingrich, where she heads up her own Center for Effective Compassion, which promotes private giving to replace the welfare state. With all that, she has become the goddess of the G.O.P. "revolution," channeling Gingrich's nine-point plan to Renew American Civilization in her own beguiling voice. Gingrich has included her "Twelve Steps to American Renewal" in the selected readings for his televised classes. Each gushingly refers to the other in speeches and interviews...
...more equitable and violence-free society. Among those who spoke at the rally: poet Maya Angelou and civil rights activists Jesse Jackson, Joseph Lowery and Rosa Parks. Delivering a two-hour, meandering address laced with fiery denunciations of white racism and the white establishment, Farrakhan urged black men to renew their moral and spiritual dimension and take charge of their own destiny...
...terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will renew Travolta's Oscar eligibility...
Therefore, we renew our opposition to establishing a standing committee on ethnic studies and support Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles's recent letter arguing against such a program...
Republicans share the basic optimism of the American people and prefer to emphasize a positive vision of our nation's future. Our first strategy to achieve that better future is to renew American civilization. This goal rests on the belief that America is multiethnic but one civilization. Renewal means we first must identify its strengths and then identify the factors that serve to corrupt it. Some aspects of government-subsidized art are clearly designed to undermine our civilization. For example, despite its prominent reproduction in a full-page photo, Piss Christ, Andres Serrano's blasphemous, NEA-underwritten exhibit, is barely...