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Word: whiter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Computers are cheap. Internet access is available almost everywhere. So why does the online world get richer and whiter every year? The third in a series of Commerce Department reports examining the "Digital Divide" finds that although more blacks and Hispanics are booting up and logging on than ever before, they?re still getting connected at a far slower rate than their white counterparts, with the gap between white and minority households online growing by six percent. "This is a problem not only for the minorities who are missing out, this is a problem for the Web," says TIME technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Info Superhighway Still Mostly for White Drivers | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow-Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...America, I am on the whiter side of the spectrum, and until I came to Russia, I never thought that anyone might consider me to be black. However, because my slightly dark features resemble those of a Caucasian (a euphemistic phrase for "black person"), I have been stopped by the police in Moscow six times within four months to have my passport checked. I have also regularly seen darker-complexioned men who do not have the luxury of an American passport being carted off to the local police post while their whiter brethren scurry on their...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: Multi-Ethnic, But Narrow Minded | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...Spontaneously between numbers. band members broke out into a "how to make any song country" lesson. Countryfying various tunes like "We Ain't Gonna Take It," "Billy Jean" and "Whiter Shade of Pale," Pat laughed, "This is the kind of [stuff] we listen...

Author: By By SARAH D. redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Pat McGee: Hot and Sticky | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

Spontaneously between numbers. band members broke out into a "how to make any song country" lesson. Countryfying various tunes like "We Ain't Gonna Take It," "Billy Jean" and "Whiter Shade of Pale," Pat laughed, "This is the kind of [stuff] we listen...

Author: By Sarah D. Redmond, | Title: Pat McGee hot & sticky | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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