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Word: civilizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...have occurred to you that there might be some pesky civil liberties concerns about all this banning business. But school officials in Lubbock appear to have written all that off using a "clear and present danger argument." The day of judgment, after all, could take us by surprise...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: The Devil Went Down to Texas | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Since becoming the first black to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962, Meredith has moved away from the civil rights mainstream. Among his achievements since joining Helms' staff last year: firing off a press release in July declaring that of the 3,000 delegates to the recent convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, "I have a background profile on more than half of ((them)), and over 60% are involved in the drug culture and at least 80% are involved in criminal or immoral activities" Helms mildly criticized Meredith for using Senate letterhead. Gantt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Ball Game | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...their five children were born, to give his wife one last look at home. One of the hazy bits in his story is how, before he emigrated, he knew of a tiny, unincorporated farm hamlet called Ellsworth (after Colonel Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth, the first Union officer killed in the Civil War). There were a few Dutch families in this rolling, forested country at the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, but no Danes who might have written to say there were lumberjack jobs in the woods for a sturdy young man who didn't speak much English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ellsworth, Michigan Going Home: Roots, but No Tracks | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...WORLD: Civil war and tribal carnage in Liberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...employers are making up the difference, many are not; their only legal obligation is to hold a reservist's job open for his or her return. Reservists, however, can have the interest rate on mortgage and other debts reduced to 6% under the 50-year-old Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Weekend To Full-Time Warriors | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

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