Word: strife
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...blacks can be addressed, and some much-needed progress can be made. We must not blithely dismiss or oversimplify American history by believing that the scars of slavery were healed by the Emancipation Proclamation, or that the "I Have a Dream" speech somehow soothed three centuries of racial strife. Neither can we hold sons and daughters accountable for the sins of their mothers and fathers. We must embrace history. We must sit with our nation's sins, discuss them, debate them, transcend them. And then we must move forward together in realizing the great gifts of humanity that lay within...
Students may have found a solution to Loker's financial strife...
...countrymen. With a practical mind for detail, Deng helped duplicate and distribute the party newsletter, a job that earned him the mock degree of "doctor of mimeography." He earned his true credentials, however, in Moscow, where he studied Marxist-Leninist thought in 1926. Then it was back to a strife-torn China to propagate the faith. Deng's first assignment, as ideological watchdog to a Soviet-supported warlord, fell through when his patron defected to the Nationalists. Deng's next mission was even less promising: the young communist was ordered to the backcountry of Guangxi province in the far south...
Zelnick said that affirmative action perverts the intent of lawmakers in the 1960s who enacted federal legislation designed to eliminate all forms of racial inequality. By equating race with a form of merit, Zelnick added, racial-preference programs have sown the seeds of civil disharmony and racial strife in American society...
...willing to take a stand for what he knew was right." Flood's fight was not about greed but about rights, about raising the status of players above that of commodity. Many of today's fans look at free-agency today and see sky-high salaries, labor strife, and disappearing team loyalty; for many, Flood's legacy has turned sour. But those remembering Flood described a quiet, noble man, who undoubtedly had something better in mind...