Word: bende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the speech was in many ways classic Botha, it also turned out to be the most precise statement to date of how far he is willing to bend to accommodate South Africa's disenfranchised black majority. Calling for "cooperative coexistence," he proposed a confederation of geographic and ethnic "units," with each racial group having responsibility for its "own affairs," including education, social welfare and residential areas. On matters of "mutual concern," meaning economic, defense and foreign policy, political structures would be created to permit discussion "without the one group having the right to dominate the others." To those familiar...
...Sunday family and friends visited Ike's grave to honor him with a traditional memorial service. The ceremony was supposed to mark the end of the mourning period, but for some, the grief will never diminish. And for others, grief lies waiting somewhere down the road, around the next bend, just past that last six-pack...
...walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon for elevator indicator lights, recessed into the walls of a lobby. Says he: "We use it to enhance colors or show off a corner. You can bend it to design your own light. It gives off a mystical, ethereal quality...
...remains an electric testimony to a raw and rambunctious American spirit. With its arrival elsewhere in so many shops and galleries and trendy facades, neon, which after all is the Greek word for new, seems to have found a means of staying that way. The medium has learned to bend with changing tastes...
Riverbend Park is jointly run by the MDC and a local preservationist group called the People for River bend Park Trust...