Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some reformers have a more assertive agenda. "History makes some people feel good and other people feel bad," says Joyce King, a California curriculum commissioner who protested the "racial stereotyping" in one proposed textbook because it implied that black ghettos were "naturally crime-ridden and dirty. If you create a curriculum that lauds the achievements of one group and omits and distorts the achievements of another, it has an effect...
...confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among New Yorkers it reinforced the spreading conviction that the city has spun out of control. A growing sense of vulnerability has been deepened by the belief that deadly violence, once mostly confined to crime-ridden ghetto neighborhoods that the police wrote off as free-fire zones, is now lashing out randomly at anyone, anytime, even in areas once considered relatively safe...
...think it's pretty nerve-wracking," he says. "Meeting the profs is fairly angst-ridden. And you think it matters--it probably doesn't--just people think it does...
With the nation's big cities ridden by crime, smog and traffic snarls, Americans must be fleeing to the serenity of the countryside, right? Wrong. Preliminary statistics from the 1990 census indicate that over the past decade the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s was reversed. Rural areas may have lost as many as 1.4 million people, far more than demographers had predicted. By contrast, metropolitan areas along the California and Florida coasts have grown sharply...
...Middle East for the past three weeks, CBS News anchorman Dan Rather has been just where he likes to be: at the center of the action. But last week he missed a big story back on his home turf. In another spasm of turmoil at the angst-ridden House of Murrow, CBS News president David Burke, 54, was forced to resign after two years on the job. Eric Ober, 48, a 24-year veteran of CBS who currently runs the five local stations that the network owns, will become the fourth news president since Laurence Tisch took over the network...