Word: shiftings
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...between 1976 and 1986. That represents a drop of 34,000 students during a period when total college enrollment grew by more than a million and the proportion of black students who finished high school climbed from 68% to 76%. Possible explanations include the shift from grants to loans in federal aid for higher education, a lack of aggressive recruitment by colleges and tougher entrance requirements...
Recalling his entrance to the statehouse in 1965, the Washingtonian said changing from private citizen to private figure caused a major shift in his family life. Evans explains that his wife had a difficult job, with two of their sons in pre-school and the third a newborn...
Students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are camping out in make-shift shacks, staging rallies and mailing pennies to state representatives to protest legislators plans to cut $31 million from Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' proposed higher education budget...
Similarly, for more than a century the descendants of the freedmen have debated what name they should bear as a people. In every instance, a shift in appellation coincided with a new stage in the struggle for equality. In the years after the Civil War, the terms black and negro, favored by slaveholders gave way to the gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass...
...with a growing black middle class, the enormous expansion of political power epitomized by Jackson's presidential campaigns, and a burgeoning sympathy with the struggle against South African apartheid, yet another shift may be taking place. Jackson argues that "black tells you about skin color and what side of town you live on. African American evokes a discussion of the world." It was Ramona H. Edelin, president of the National Urban Coalition, who actually proposed the switch in December at a Chicago meeting of black leaders, including Jackson, that was held to plan a summit to set a black agenda...