Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NAMIBIA. This was the easier one-the bottom-line issue that alone made the meeting worthwhile. South Africa had already agreed to Namibian independence by Dec. 31,1978, under a multiracial government. Vorster still refused to deal directly with the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), Namibia's main liberation (and guerrilla) movement. But he hinted that SWAPO could be invited to the round-table conference-now under way at Windhoek, the Namibian capital -by conference delegates. He also indicated that South Africa might be willing to move Namibia's independence date forward...
...find a way to take the sting out of that. People are not against him, but they're not yet hot for him either." New England breaks down fairly neatly: Ford is ahead in the top tier of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; the more populous bottom rung of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island seems strong for Carter...
...that there will be no strike, or at worst a very short one. The U.A.W. is concentrating this year on greater job security and a larger supplemental unemployment-benefit fund, rather than on wage boosts. Such preoccupation reflects the auto workers' experience during the recent recession, at the bottom of which 275,000 were on layoff. Woodcock even hinted last week that he might keep workers on the job without a contract if agreement has not been reached by Sept. 14, but seems close...
...Private institutions are in the worst shape. Fully 86.6% of them are in the bottom two categories, while only 13.5% of publicly controlled institutions are so placed...
...regular brokerage houses anyway. By law, banks cannot buy or sell stocks for their own accounts; all they can do is act on behalf of customers. The bank will channel orders to a Wall Street broker-presumably a deep discounter willing to work for Chemical's rock-bottom prices, with the bank sharing some of the bookkeeping costs...