Word: second-class
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QUOTE OF NOTE: "Unless we reverse course, America is going to slide inevitably into second-class economic status. Without change, a child born today will have to pay sky-high taxes while facing a deteriorating standard of living...
...haven't felt that women are second-class citizens," she said...
Norman Thagard, the only other American to live aboard Mir, spent 115 days on the station last year, losing 17 lbs. and complaining afterward of the "cultural isolation" he felt while aloft. Lucid found that she was sometimes treated like a second-class passenger. Her crewmates occasionally left Mir to conduct maintenance outside. When they did, they placed red tape over the communications panel, a blunt sign to their guest that she was not to fool with a system they assumed she did not understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian...
...commissioned Army second lieutenant en route to a post in Virginia, he was so naive about what it could mean to be black in America that when a waitress at a segregated Newport News, Virginia, drive-in refused to serve him and his wife, he recalled later, "I thought maybe there was something wrong with the car door." When it dawned on him that he had been rejected because of his race, Brown drove off, apparently without making a protest. It was the first time his charm had not protected him from being treated as a second-class citizen...
...socially from the petrification which would result from the elimination of immigration. The principles of openness and freedom which guided our founding fathers must be maintained if this experiment in multicultural democracy is to be preserved in a vigorous manner. Furthermore, Simpson's legislation would also create a second-class citizenship status in America by denying legal immigrants who have become naturalized U.S. citizens public assistance benefits until they have worked in this country for at least 10 years...