Word: departing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowding, discourtesy and inconvenience. Increasingly, the traumas of life in Manhattan are becoming more than many major companies are willing to bear. In the past four years, 22 large firms have moved their headquarters out of the city, and at least eleven more have made definite plans to depart (see box). Another two dozen are seriously considering whether or not to leave. Still other companies-including A.T. & T., Borden. Eastern Air Lines,Grolier, Mobil Oil and Uniroyal-have kept their home offices in Manhattan but have moved or soon will move a significant part of their staffs out of town...
...Crazy Chris's group did wait-for nearly 30 minutes-alternately foraging through Herbert's offices for a closer look at his mementos and fending off the angry, but restraining invitations from Miss Moore to depart...
...civil war-and it could be called no less-promised to be long and bloody. The Bengalis, armed with a few looted guns, spears and often just bamboo staves, were ill-trained for a guerrilla war. But a resistance movement, once organized, might eventually force the West Pakistanis to depart. In a way, the struggle evoked haunting memories of the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, when the federal regime sought justification in the name of national unity and the Biafrans in the name of self-determination...
...FACT-FINDER would have to weigh profitability above responsibility, the report maintains. Constricting financial pressures force an emphasis on fiscal returns. But more importantly, the report emphasizes that the University cannot "depart from the essentially neutral pursuit of truth...
Bertucelli begins with an excerpt from Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. It makes the not very unique observation that bourgeois influence does not vanish when the bourgeoisie depart. Fortunately Bertucelli then propels language into gesture and diurnal life into dramatic text. Ramparts of Clay has but one vital incident. A company official travels a great distance to pay the quarriers of the village. The wages are arbitrarily halved; the men go on a sit-down strike. Soldiers are called in, ringing the strikers who cannot join their families a few hundred yards away. Food is denied...