Word: whites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week, the White House and House Republicans struck a deal, which President Clinton is expected to sign this week, agreeing...
...fragile relations between America and the UN make it crucial that the Clinton administration and Congress come to an agreement and quickly pay Washington's dues. America's UN debt has also been a major sticking point blocking a budget agreement between Congress and the White House...
...turning to the contentious domestic issue of abortion is certainly not the appropriate solution. While the terms of this negotiation have finally broken the deadlock between the White House and Congress, it has drawn scathing criticism from abortion rights activists and Democratic presidential frontrunners Vice-President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. And for good reason...
Then there's the mixed message that Jackson is sending. He contends that although the officials who kicked those black kids out of school are overwhelmingly white, the issue is "not race but fairness." In almost the very next breath, he likens Decatur to Selma, Ala. If race is not the issue in Decatur, why dredge up memories of a historic civil rights struggle where the only issue was race...
Those are just two examples of why it's so difficult for all of us, black and white, to discuss racial issues productively: our words keep throwing us back to the past. That's what's happening in Decatur, where school officials' stubbornness and loaded language from both sides have escalated a local dispute over school safety into a racial cause celebre...