Word: whole
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...speaking children unless they are also made for French-speaking or Hebrew-speaking or Vietnamese-speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish at school and whose parents speak mostly Spanish at home will never really learn to compete in American society as a whole. Cultural pride notwithstanding, this could prove a-fatal handicap in a specialized, highly technological nation where language skills are more important than at any other time in history. What is more, the perpetuation of a large subculture with little or no skill in English could lead to something...
...community affairs rather than broad political issues; outright racial and social discrimination. But the most immediate ?and most easily remedied?reason is their failure to register in sufficient numbers. Of 7 million Hispanics eligible to vote, only 37.8% are registered, vs. 66.7% of the population as a whole...
During the mad, magnificent peak travel season of '78, commercial flying finally became a mass transit business. Drawn by all the bargain fares, hordes of vacationers-retired couples, hirsute backpackers, whole families loaded down with bikes, fold-up baby strollers and other paraphernalia -swarmed into the nation's airports and almost overnight cured the airlines' lingering problem of too many empty seats. While it was a boon to the industry, whose planes have been setting records in passenger loadings (63% of capacity) and earnings (expected to be about $1 billion this year), the summer of the discounts...
...when Coach Blackman starts talking about the Restic "Multisex" offense, I start giggling, you know, sort of quiet like. And then coach Blackman, he says, 'OK, Elmer, what's the joke? If it's so funny, why don't you share it WITH THE WHOLE TEAM?' So I go, 'Heh, heh, the multisex, what does that mean--some of the the guys wear PANTIES on the field or something?' And then everybody starts laughing, and I guess I was laughing too--yeah, I was laughing--except they were sort of laughing AT me, you know, not WITH me? Boy, what...
...didn't lose to them 7-1 like we did last time "and we didn't have a single illegal throw-in. Other than that, there isn't a whole lot to praise...