Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that they care about the South African question, and work--through stockholder resolutions and other tactics--to get those companies directly supporting the South African government to pull out from the country, and to push companies which do not directly propagate apartheid to adopt the Sullivan Principles as a bare minimum...
From the top of the dike the plain looked endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd's reed in the distance made his small flock of sheep and goats visible. The goats separated themselves from the sheep seemingly by following the sound of their own bells. But there wasn't even a small patch of green, and what the animals fed on couldn't be anything...
Nelson grabbed one of the solar array panels, but the movement made Max tumble even faster and more erratically. With the MMU's nitrogen propellant half exhausted and Challenger down to a fifth of its own reserves of forward-thruster fuel-close to the bare minimum needed to rescue an astronaut in free flight-Crippen ordered Nelson to return. Inside Challenger 's cockpit, Mission Specialist Terry Hart, 37, tried three times to snake the remote-controlled mechanical arm past the panels to snatch the satellite, but it remained tantalizingly out of reach. Said Crippen: "We came close that...
...message, waited until the Holt was passing by at 300 yds., then fired four warning signal flares over the American vessel and four directly at it. Three of the flares hit the frigate's port side. The fourth whizzed by the bridge, missing the captain by a bare...
...with him went on to the end of a gray and overcast afternoon. At the time, Gromyko was 72. At the beginning of the meeting, he had seemed fit and younger than his years, but at the end he looked aged and tired, and wiped his brow with his bare hand in apparent fatigue and relief. Perhaps he was glad that nothing worse had been said about Poland. He may also have realized that when he and I met again, the subject in all its danger for the world and shame for the Soviet Union would not be so easy...