Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood between the two has been flowing since early last year, when Hendrickse sauntered into the surf at a whites-only beach as a demonstration against apartheid. Hendrickse, whose Labor Party holds 76 of the colored House's 85 seats, opposes Botha's key political legislation this year, including several amendments to the Group Areas Act, which chops South Africa into segregated areas...
...Flushing, New York, Finance Manager, Amy J. Merritt '90 of Lowell House and Roslyn, New York, Advertising Manager, Angela C. Chaves '89 of Quincy House and Hudson, Massachusetts, Circulation Manager, Michael Pendleton of Mather House and Kaukaura, Wisconsin, Circulation Manager, Andrew A. Samwick '89 of Dunster House and Palm Beach Garden, Florida, Operations Manager, Anil K. Shrivastava '90 of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Production Manager...
...terms of social ideals, the country may be reaching its natural limits as well. Incidents such as the Howard Beach killing in New York City serve to remind us that race hatred is ready to bubble up anywhere, but the fact that the nation almost universally responded to Howard Beach as a disgrace and an outrage suggests how much progress, not how little, the ideal of equality has made. Thanks to the ardor of three administrations, the necessary civil rights laws are in place and enforceable, and the nonlegalistic thinking about social justice has advanced immeasurably. Any Jew, Hispanic...
...never wanted them to be able to do this to women ever again." That, said Muriel Kraszewski, 52, of Long Beach, Calif., was why she joined two other women in 1979 to sue State Farm Insurance for sex discrimination. The women had applied to be sales agents, but were turned down for no valid reason...
...help corporations hold down medical costs, a whole new industry of medical efficiency experts has sprung up to track employee health care. Cost Care, based in Huntington Beach, Calif., monitors medical treatment for 4,000 U.S. companies. The doctors and registered nurses who work for the firm follow the progress of hospitalized patients and sometimes give advice on appropriate treatment. Cost Care boasts that it can cut corporate health costs as much...