Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardly surprising that in a land where some basic assumptions of life are changing so quickly, opinion should range from extreme pessimism to cautious optimism. If South Africans of every racial community have one thing in common, it is that they do not really know where their country is heading. Thus there is a shared sense of uncertainty and foreboding. The most hopeful would probably agree with John Kane-Berman, director of the South African Institute of Race Relations, who feels that the whites in general are growing more receptive to the idea of change. Though they are still...
...Government ordered 100 Hopi to one side and 10,000 Navajo to the other. By dangling economic incentives, the Government has managed to lure about 4,000 Navajo away from the Hopi area, a choice made easy by the scarcity of jobs and a ban on home construction there. Basic relocation benefits have grown from $25,000 a family to $66,000. Total costs, $106 million to date, may eventually exceed $500 million...
...building campus packed onto 27 acres, is almost as complex architecturally as it is emotionally. For a place not really so old (construction lasted from 1890 to 1935 off and on) and built for quick-and- dirty bureaucratic use, much of the compound is astonishingly lovely. The basic style is French Renaissance revival; the materials are brick, limestone and copper. The hospital, on the south side of the ferry slip, is a particularly pretty beaux-arts jewel...
Reagan's success results in part from his impressive basic consistency. He organized a clear set of goals. He kept his serious agenda relatively short and easy to understand: lower taxes, lower domestic spending, a bigger defense machine and a tougher foreign policy. "This is a man who is 75 years old," says White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. "He has thought through most of his philosophy. He has tested it in three campaigns on a national scale now. The things he believes in, he believes in deeply, and he is not about to change...
...Senate is expected to confirm both Rehnquist and Scalia by late summer. Still, both will undergo sharp and searching questioning by liberal Senators. Their nominations raise basic questions about the role of Congress in choosing Supreme Court Justices. Is the Senate's job merely to say whether a President's choice has the intellectual qualifications and experience to sit on the federal bench? If so, Scalia and Rehnquist are above reproach. Both men, declared Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole last week, have "the experience, the background, the integrity, the intelligence and the right stuff...