Word: samuel
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...need English in order to do what needs to be done. But why must we forget what we know in order to be good Americans," says Samuel Betances, a sociology professor at Northeastern Illinois University. Betances advocates maintaining Spanish among Chicanos in America. "We're going to define what being American is all about because we are people who know what the world is about in two or three different languages...
Harvard's Samuel Huntington confirms this Soviet intuition in the current Foreign Affairs. The real cause of the decline of nations, he argues, is not the now fashionable notion of "imperial overstretch" but the phenomenon of creeping inflexibility, what might be called industrial sclerosis -- precisely the loss of that ability to change and adapt...
...several speakers at the event, which included Mayor Raymond L. Flynn, Massachusetts Citizens for Life President Ruth Pakaluk and Rabbi Samuel Fox, president of the Massachusetts Council of Rabbis...
Though Hatch and Weber said they were satisfied, militant pro-lifers remain opposed to the nomination. Nevertheless, it came on Thursday, when Bush announced Sullivan's appointment, along with that of New Mexico Congressman Manuel Lujan as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel K. Skinner, a former U.S. Attorney from Illinois, to be Secretary of Transportation; and former Congressman Ed Derwinski of Illinois to head the new Department of Veterans Affairs. Two days later, Bush added a woman to his Cabinet when he named Elizabeth Dole, who was Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan and is the wife of Senate Minority...
...Stay tuned. Wait for the announcement." Says an aide: "I don't count anything a done deal until George Bush announces it. He can be unpredictable." Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner...