Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some Dominicans have a negative attitude toward Haitians," Fernandez said, responding to questions about racial inequality. "There is a new generation changing such perceptions. We say in the Dominican Republic, 'All of us have the black behind our ears...
...smell of political red meat. Except when you ask the Republicans what they would do differently, the answer is: not much. They offer no fresh ideas, just stricter oversight of loans, more criticism of bad behavior, greater caution toward leaders. No one, not even firebrand Jesse Helms, who is about to launch Senate hearings, would stop all aid or cut Russia adrift. Candidates like George W. Bush don't disagree with the basic notion of engaging Russia either, so he's left to look for traction with the mushy "I'd manage it better" argument. Even the most skeptical voter...
...concert pianist; she still practices for an hour a day and gives recitals on the Stanford campus. But after entering the University of Denver at age 15 (she skipped two grades in school), her professional music prospects dimmed, and she began to feel "an inexplicable pull toward the study of Russia and communism and Eastern Europe...
...reporters Michele Orecklin and Jodie Morse are current TIME tutors. Stein, Orecklin and Ratnesar have been working with eighth-grader Jovon Lee since last September. It didn't take long to discover they had a voracious reader on their hands, even if his tastes did tend to lean more toward stories about sports and music than national politics--although long before Jesse Ventura's election as Governor of Minnesota, Jovon had become an expert on The Body's campaign high jinks. But the most harrowing moments for Joel, Romesh and Michele come when Jovon turns a critical eye toward their...
...recently released "Students Attitudes Toward Harvard University Health Services" survey, initiated by UHS and conducted by Axiom Research Company, reports that 47 percent of those surveyed would not recommend...