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Those favoring divestiture contend that the flow of foreign capital has not improved conditions for Blacks in the country, the gap between white and Black wages was not significantly altered during the years in which economic growth was fueled by foreign investment. Moreoever, few Blacks have been accepted in managerial positions in commerce and industry. In some cases increased American investment has made industry more capital intensive and actually reduced the number of Black employees. And, during the period of great economic growth. Black political rights have, if anything, been reduced by the growth of discriminatory and repressive legislation...
...however much my own attitude towards models and actresses had been enlightened. I still had to contend with the assumption on the part of people I met and men I dated outside the business, that stupidity was a prerequisite for a modeling career. At one point, though. I had to ask myself if I really had the right to feel indignant about being treated like a dumb model, because there was a growing ring of truth to it. I had left high school at 16, a voracious reader Now, at 23, I hadn't read through a book in years...
...hard to pinpoint just when it happened. Some will say it came as early as November, when Harvard racked up more points than it had in any of the previous 98 editions of The Game to trample Yale, 45-7. Others will contend that it didn't happen until May, when Crimson crews controlled the Eastern Sprints and Harvard hardballers brought home the University's 12th Ivy League championship of the year...
Indeed, many experts consider it a myth that sexual abuse occurs mainly in rural hillbilly communities. They contend that it is just as prevalant in urban areas and among middle-and upper-class families. Nor are victims only girls. Homosexual abuse of boys by adult males in the home is more common than generally realized, they say, although no reliable statistics are available. Incest between mothers and sons is hardly ever reported...
Today's adventurers must contend with the irksome truth that much of what is grand and gallant has already been done. What remains is to repeat the great feats of the past in a more difficult manner or to invent stunts whose nature is often, necessarily, more than somewhat bizarre. Thus we see the attempt by Mountaineer Tabin's group to climb Everest by an approach once thought foolhardy, and the astonishing accomplishment of Italian Superclimber Reinhold Messner three years ago of reaching Everest's summit alone and without oxygen...