Word: roading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thernstroms are disarming in their willingness to concede what they don't know. They say they are less concerned that readers agree with all their theories than that people use the data to draw more exacting road maps for race. Indeed, some of the data are cause for both camps to reassess their view of the world. But there is enough that is not addressed here that in the midst of the rising debate over affirmative action, the nation's longest march still seems burdened by too much ideology and too few sensible maps...
HOLD THE FRIES Steering-wheel dining is as American as, well, apple pie a la road. One out of 10 restaurant meals and 1 out of 5 fast-food meals are now eaten in a car. The dashboard favorite: a hamburger for lunch...
...black poverty and social disarray. The Thernstroms dismiss Wilson's work as simply "plausible." Some blacks have made it, they note; let those on the bottom emulate these role models. But even those blacks who have achieved are bitter about the racism they faced on the road to success. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, reminded that his people had come a long way, responded, "But so have other people come a long way...People say we are better off today. Better than what...
...continue down this same road, what will this earth look like generations from now? Empty oceans, chopped-down forests and bumper stickers that read SAVE US FROM OURSELVES. JENNIFER LEE, age 16 New York City I have been fishing for bluefin tuna commercially for 30 years and have seen an incredible increase in the stock since 1988. The conservation program has worked, but at the expense of commercial fishermen. We are heavily restricted in the amount and size of the tuna we catch, while recreational anglers are not. If consumers want to do something to help fish stocks, they should...
...plans to give them the not-so-diplomatic treatment she's becoming famous for: a blunt talking-to and a rap on the knuckles. Washington is frustrated with the game of diplomatic chicken that both sides have been playing. In several major speeches, Albright plans to lay out "what road they're headed down" if the talks remain deadlocked, says an official, and "why if they don't change we can't be expected to change things for them...