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...attempting to undo the past, Black Americans have come close to undoing the significance and relevance of slavery," he said in a speech which summarized the argument in his award-winning book, Slavery and Social Death...
...Gomes says that with a five-year term, the master can never gain enough autonomy to run the House properly. "The effect of the five-year rule for masters if it is a rule--has been chilling. Five years barely allows a master to undo whatever damage he inherited," the Lowell House Senior Common Room member says...
...them are with depressed economies, until now their citizens have been spared violent Latin American-style takeovers. At their meeting in Trini dad, the foreign ministers and heads of state of CARICOM, the organization of Caribbean nations, pondered the crisis in Grenada but understood full well they could not undo the damage...
...interest rates unusually high, weakened business investment and driven the value of the dollar to a level that has undermined the competitiveness of U.S. exports. While the economy seems much healthier in the short run, the budget gap may be causing long-term damage that will be difficult to undo. Observed Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington: "We could have a recovery for some period of time fueled by consumption and Government spending but with sluggish investment and exports. That is a miserable kind of recovery...
...received a welcome spate of April showers. So too, the worst drought in Australia's history ended last March, when steady rainfall began soaking much of the country. As new seeds have been planted, optimism has flowered. But Australian farmers estimate it could take seven years to undo the damage. In drought-ravaged areas around the world, such problems would seem like blessings. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Dean Brelis/New Delhi and Gavin Scott/Rio de Janeiro, with other bureaus