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Word: africanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said last night during a panel discussion on African development at the Kennedy School that the current African economic situation is a "nightmare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara Speaks on Africa | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

...picture that emerges when looking ahead to the next 25 years is almost a nightmare," said McNamara, who focused his remarks on the African population explosion and the hardships it is placing on the developing Sub-Saharan economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara Speaks on Africa | 10/14/1988 | See Source »

Consider Harvard's failure to divest from South African-related stocks. The moral significance of this new divestment could only pale in comparison. This new idea is simply the latest in a string of ways Harvard has attempted to appear socially conscious while abdicating its ultimate responsibility to act in the most ethical way possible in every arena...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Ironies Aren't Funny | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

...South African fellows I've met here are janitors back home, and they said they will return to their positions upon their return. Coming to Harvard is like a temporary break from hell. That is not a commitment on Harvard's part. A commitment means you invest in someone's future, make a difference worth noting. Harvard teases students by allowing them to glimpse freedoms that it is helping to deny them...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Ironies Aren't Funny | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

Somehow, I find it hard to visualize Bok and the members of the Board of Overseers furiously scrubbing away at tears caused by the thought of an unwarned African puffing on a cigarette, when the thought of tens of thousands of Africans killed fighting for rights basic to humanity evokes a reciting of the obligatory,"Yes, apartheid is a terrible injustice," followed by the resumption of the tea party...

Author: By Sharmian L. White, | Title: Ironies Aren't Funny | 10/4/1988 | See Source »

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