Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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March Sat, 18 PENNSYLVANIA 1:00 p.m. Sat, 25 at Princeton 12:00 p.m. Sun, 26 at Maryland...
...Crimson felt a little rusty in around-robin tournament last weekend at William andMary. In 25-minute scrimmages against Penn State,the University of Virginia, Maryland, Williamand Mary, Lafayette, Hofstra and the World Cupteam, Harvard lost all but three games...
...lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care and the arts. "The black middle class has not done enough to keep the door of opportunity...
Future progress might be stifled by an economic downturn. University of Maryland sociologist Bart Landry, author of The New Black Middle Class, predicts that by the end of the next decade 56.4% of all black workers and 63% of all white workers will be in the middle class -- provided the economy expands at a healthy clip. If it does not, Landry warns, the expansion of the black middle class could come to a sudden halt. Says he: "During periods when the economy is tight, discrimination asserts itself...
Congressional Democrats remain slightly puzzled about how to react to Bush's strategy of proffering a velvet glove clutching a closed wallet. After years of bitter deadlock with Reagan, they tended to mute their criticism of a President so palpably eager to negotiate. Some, like Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, were amused by the incongruities of the President's new compassionate language. "Bush sounded a lot like Michael Dukakis," she joked. "I hate to use that L word, but it sounded liberal, liberal, liberal...