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It is doubtful, though, that the corporate pullouts or sanctions passed earlier will have much immediate impact on South African racial policy. The country's leaders, determined to go their own way, are convinced they can continue to prosper even in economic isolation. Officials are already gearing up to circumvent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Pullout Parade | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

The stamp's arrival today in post offices nationwide followed more than a year of intense lobbying by at least one U.S. senator, Harvard Clubs from New York to Orange County, Calif., and scattered philatelically inclined alumni nationwide. The groups had to circumvent a 1971 U.S. Postal Service rule prohibiting...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Post Office Issues Stamp To Commemorate 350th | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

Parliament can moot those decisions simply by passing new, retroactive laws that circumvent the courts' objections. Still, at least some of the judicial impact is likely to last. Says Jules Browde, chairman of South Africa's Lawyers for Human Rights Organization: "The importance of these cases is that they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Courts Vs. Apartheid | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Computer supervision has made inroads in other businesses as well. At a Ford Motor plant in Batavia, Ohio, computers keep a running record of each employee's absences. Perfect attendance for a year can bring a prize of $500. Industrial companies have been less inclined than service firms to impose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boss That Never Blinks | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Federal law technically forbids banks to branch across state lines. But the rules have not stopped the interstate spread of financial institutions that function very much as real banks do. These companies have been able to circumvent the law because they do not fit the legal definition of a bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: A Bank By Any Other Name | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

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