Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feminism and social justice in a nation just discovering the need to grant rights to women, blacks, ordinary workers and the poor. She discovered the depth of racial discrimination while touring New Deal programs (on a visit to Birmingham in 1938, she refused to sit in the white section of the auditorium), and subsequently peppered her husband with questions over dinner and memos at bedtime. Even after her husband's death, she remained one of the century's most powerful advocates for social fairness...
...drive-by car with three passengers. She was hit in the neck, chest and abdomen, but managed to call 911, surviving long enough to apparently finger Carruth, who is believed to be the baby's father. Rushed to the hospital, she later delivered her son by emergency C-section. Last week she died. The football player was arrested and released on $3 million bond, but he jumped bail last week and fled to Wildersville, Tenn. His female companion led FBI agents to where he was hiding, in the trunk of her gray Toyota Camry parked at a Best Western motel...
Treating great thinkers in this way often generates a flighty arrogance. In section, would-be consultants, having skimmed a few books of the Politics, claim shamelessly that Aristotle contradicts himself; bubbly pre-meds babble unchecked about Locke's shortsightedness...
Robert La Tremouille was the only speaker who spoke against the ordinance, arguing that one section should be amended. If passed as is, La Tremouille said, the ordinance would eliminate the current protection against new signs in residential East Harvard Square...
...want Casey Martin to have a productive year on the PGA Tour with the use of his golf cart. As I've said in "Justice" section, I'm for substantive equality of opportunity...