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1 / 20 RC Sentence 1. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principle reasons why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficult establishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizeable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies. 2. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World” categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defended or attacked. 3. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a halt, begin things again from compensatorily staggered starting lines. 4. “Reform” in America has been sterile because it can image no change except through the extension of this metaphor of a race, wider inclusion of competitors, “a piece of the action,” as it were, for the disenfranchised. 5. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny them, move away from them. 6. The traditional view supposed that the upper mantle of the earth behaves as a liquid when it is subjected to small forces for long periods and that differences in temperature under oceans and continents are sufficient to produce convection in the mantle of the earth with rising convection currents under the mid-ocean ridges and sinking currents under the continents. 7. This view may be correct: it has the advantage that the currents are driven by temperature difference that themselves depend on the position of the continents. 8. The enclosed seas are an important feature of the earth’s surface and seriously require explanation becau