Word: clearest
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Silvers is promoting a very frustrating kind of politics which advocates reasoning with a genocidal and intransigent ruling class. It is therefore not surprising that he calls the Sullivan Principles, "a series of basic humane guidelines." This is perhaps the clearest abandonment of old SASC's basic line. The Sullivan Principles call "for desegregated bathrooms and training programs for token black executives" to quote an old SASC leaflet. In fact, they provide for a total of 96 managers and managers in training in South Africa. Yet, Silvers thinks pure white domination under the Sullivan Principles to be "humane." He does...
...sense of community is clearest in the events that surround cooking the dinner. Co-op residents must fend for themselves for breakfast and lunch, but dinner is a communal affair. Although all the co-ops are equipped with large common rooms complete with fireplaces and in some cases TV, the central gathering place for the residents is the kitchen, where co-opers begin drifting...
...moment the clearest thing about the breakup of AT&T is the confusion. As recently as last week, it was unclear, for instance, whether local phone companies had the right to offer phone services like weather and time of day after Jan, 1. The gigantic physical task of divvying the Bell System's assets among the new parts, from whole telephone exchanges down to trucks, repair equipment, paper clips and brooms, is still going on. Though phone service has not been hampered, companies trying to do business with Bell report that they sometimes have trouble finding...
...with TIME (see box), and was embedded in the usual condemnations of U.S. policy. Ortega and Ramirez not only restated Nicaragua's longstanding willingness to link the two issues in negotiations, but also reiterated their desire for such a dialogue with fresh urgency. They also offered perhaps the clearest official admission to date that the contras have become a major worry for Nicaragua. Said Ramirez: "What we would like to talk about with the U.S. is a mutual commitment"-an end to U.S. backing of the contras in exchange for the Sandinistas' stopping any support that...
Years ago, Woodrow Wilson argued that the clearest principle of representative government was that "somebody must be trusted." When politics threatens that trust, as now, the presidential commission, judiciously constituted and carefully used, can be one way back to confidence...