Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of a coalition ready to support consociational reform, probably composed of elements from the Nationalist Party, Afrikaans and English business, the civil service, the military, "Colored" and "Asian" leaders, "urban middle-class Blacks, traditional Black leaders, and externally, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom." (p. 23) The government, Huntington wrote, may want to "divide and rule" Black groups, using "fragmentation among Black groups and the rivalry among Black leaders...to enlist some measure of Black support for the reform process...
...Overseer and formerpresident of the Crimson, is writing adissertation in sociology at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, comparing labor movementsin South Africa and Brazil. She is grateful toGarth, Megan and Gavin for pointing outHuntington's contributions in South Africa.PhotoThemba NkosiSouth African workers in Durban in December,1985 celebrating the creation of a new democraticmovement, the Congress of South African TradeUnions...
More than 75 percent of the approximately 100students interviewed for this article viewed thehouse system as having a generally positiveinfluence on Harvard undergraduate life.Undergraduates say the best result of the systemwas the creation of smaller communities within thelarger College...
With all eyes on 1988, many voters have shrugged off next week's local contests. Not so in Maine, where a hotly contested proposal to bar the creation of nuclear waste within the state will be decided next Tuesday. If approved, the measure would lead to the shutdown of Maine Yankee, a 15-year- old nuclear power plant...
...best minds of a generation marched off to make millions as market mavens, embracing the greed- and-glory smugness that suffused both Wall Street and Washington. An economy that was once based on manufacturing might and inventive genius began pursuing wealth through mergers and takeovers and the creation of new "financial instruments." Fortunes were conjured out of thin air by fresh- faced traders who created nothing more than paper -- gilded castles in the sky held aloft by red suspenders...