Word: makeing
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...even more pernicious cost: it creates corrosive doubt in the eyes of both whites and blacks about the worth of any black achievement. However much people may deny it, no one can see a black professor or doctor without having the thought run through his mind: Did he make it on his own or did he get through on a quota? These doubts gratuitously reinforce in both blacks and whites a presumption of racial inferiority...
...world's chanceries as odd -- the Georgian was a provincial politician with no experience in world affairs -- and as an indication that Gorbachev intended to be his own Foreign Minister. That assessment was wrong. In reality, the two planned together to tame the country's adventurist foreign policy and make it the servant of domestic needs...
...deepest questions raised by Shevardnadze's resignation, internationally as well as internally, are: Is the Soviet Union really in danger of renewed dictatorship? And if it is, does the Foreign Minister's resignation make the peril greater or less...
...unexpected assessment last week, and for those who know him, it was altogether plausible that this was a simple case of a guileless Army man putting his boot in his mouth. "He's a hell of a good soldier," said a friend of Waller's, "but that doesn't make him a competent spokesman...
Officials from many states complain that Washington is making their problems worse. Two weeks ago, lawmakers who assembled in the capital for the National Conference of State Legislatures claimed that the recent budget compromise between the White House and Congress would cost the states an additional $17 billion over five years. Reason: federal mandates in the deficit-reduction deal direct states to spend money for such things as clean air and improved nursing-home care. The group also predicted that the increase in federal taxes on gasoline and alcohol would make it harder for states to increase their own levies...