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...spite of his occasionally grim view of the future of the former Soviet Union, Yavlinsky, who was deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation in 1990, noted the encouraging results of the empire's demise...
...spite of the triumph of reform at the ballot box, De Klerk's main negotiating partner, Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), could not share the euphoria. The country's 30 million black citizens still suffer profound inequalities in housing, education, ( medical care and other basic necessities. As Mandela watched whites streaming to the polls, he said, "I still cannot vote in my own country." But when it was over, he smiled and said at last, "I am very pleased...
Senior lefthander Sean Johnston comes off of a perplexing season in which he won only one game in spite of a solid 3.31 ERA and the best hits-to-innings-pitched ratio on the team...
...climbed steeply. In 1990, 33% of all black high school graduates went on to college, in contrast to 23% in 1967. Since 1976, black Scholastic Aptitude Test scores have increased by a greater percentage than those of either whites or Asians. Still, blacks have higher truancy rates, and in spite of the gains, the test scores of African Americans remain the lowest among large ethnic groups. The high school dropout rate among young blacks averages 7.7%, nearly twice that of their white peers...
Harvard maintained a double-dig-it lead on the visitors for the better part of the second half, in spite of fairly sloppy performances from the team...