Word: kinship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friendship can be a true kinship, an intimacy that lasts a lifetime. But some people who think of each other as close friends are merely companions of convenience, their bond formed through proximity at the office or in neighborly chats along the back fence. They may not understand each other, may not even like each other much, but somehow they see each other all the time. That kind of attachment has grown up between the Jacksons, a shy, stiff couple who live with their adolescent daughter in the built-up London suburb of Ruislip, and their Canadian-born neighbors...
...Harvard-South Africa kinship is a marriage born in hell." Jackson told a standing-room-only audience of about...
...Harvard-South Africa kinship makes crimson become red," he continued. "It symbolizes collusion with those who spill the blood of the innocent...
...America, and it menaces the culture of our politics, for it challenges the bedrock faith of a nation whose secular theology is equality. Is America a nation of individual Americans or a nation of separate communities? If communities were to be given rewards and responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging to the notion that all men are created equal...
...conservative President and the moderate (and once liberal) senator hardly share an ideological kinship. But Percy now basks in Reagan's light and welcomes Presidential visits to Illinois. His relationship with the President, his campaign argues, represents the "Illinois Advantage": Percy's got clout in the White House and can help bring jobs to Illinois. He touts the economic "miracle" of 1981-84. Yet during these "miraculous" years, the Illinois unemployment rate has risen from 8.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. The state has lost more than 250,000 jobs in manufacturing industries alone. How's that for clout...