Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...21st March, 1970 is the tenth anniversary of Sharpe ville and will be commemorated throughout the world, In the ten years since Sharpeville, South Africa has experienced an unprecedented industrial boom, heavily backed by overseas capital. (U.S. direct investments now total ove??? billion dollars.) Contrary to Mr. Bennett's statement the situation has NOT been improved by this increased investment...
...only 19th, just ahead of Italy's and far behind the U.S.'s $4,600. But that gap is closing fast as Japanese workers begin to make up for past sacrifices with fat pay increases. "It would not be surprising," says the Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn, "if the 21st century turned out to be the Japanese century...
...past still pervades Japan, hut it does not crimp its future. Already, the heirs presumptive to the 21st century own a big share of the 20th. A human cliche everywhere is the bespectacled Japanese salesman, quick to bow, to smile and, after consulting his pocket dictionary and his neatly arranged attache case, to quote a cut-rate price. He is seen even in the lobbies of the Alcron in Prague and the Gellert in Budapest...
...prize winners will be announced at a meeting in New York, March 2. Over 1500 authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers are expected to attend the ceremony, which will be the 21st since the awards were created...
...generation of film-company executives are suddenly trying to cope with economic realities that their fathers and uncles refused even to recognize. During the past few years, for example, 20th Century-Fox wasted a great deal of thought on whether and when to change its name to 21st Century-Fox; meanwhile disastrous pictures like Star! and Dr. Doolittle were costing -and losing-millions of dollars...