Word: representive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Statistics released in a statement by the SEF reveal that Blacks today comprise 6.9 percent of the nation's teachers, while Black students represent 16.2 percent of the nation's school enrollment.
Long the world's leading exporter of crude, Saudi Arabia now wants more of the profits its oil generates -- from the ground to the gas tank. The Saudi government has agreed to pay $1.2 billion for a 50% interest in Texaco's refining and marketing operations in 23 U.S. states...
Gorbachev may have had in mind the volatile situation in the southern republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which may represent a serious threat to his policies and his position. More than 35 people have been killed in four months of demonstrations and occasional violence over the status of Nagorno- Karabakh...
Cuts on that scale cannot be carried out by any nickel-and-dime process. The U.S. will have to reassess its commitments around the world, rethinking basic military strategy and the weapons systems needed to carry it out. The $300 billion budget for fiscal 1989, now in Senate-House conference...
Author Paul Theroux, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "These books about the affairs of the White House, telling secrets -- they're obnoxious. But haven't we got a right to know those things? Aren't we obliged to know those things? The same goes for people selling snake oil...