Word: disappearance
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...shock to the economy that will force the Botha regime to leave office or dismantle apartheid. This strategy breaks down for several reasons. To begin with, in the unlikely event that American firms did withdraw as a result of divestment, the result is not likely to cause apartheid to disappear. Instead, the departure of these firms might simply cause black unemployment without forcing the Afrikaner regime to change its policies. More likely, local interests would buy up the American facilities at bargain proces, and life would go on much as before...
...country the size of the Soviet Union (more than two times larger than the U.S.), letters frequently get lost in the mail. Sometimes even important documents disappear into the maw of a vast bureaucracy. But a whole train? Just so. In June 1983, according to an article last week in Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, a 28-car freight train loaded with crushed rock rolled out of the Tomashgorodsky Metal Factory in the Ukraine, bound for a construction site 350 miles away in the Russian republic. The train left, Pravda reported, "but it did not arrive...
...Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks he has: "The short-term rallying round by blacks and the business community will disappear as Goode begins to make mistakes." But Goode does not sound concerned. "I've had a charmed life as mayor because I've learned the arts of compromise and negotiation," he told TIME last week. "I will run again. There's work here that has to be done and that cannot...
...people's lives, and whose total self-absorption amounts to innocence. She dresses weirdly too; in one scene she parades through the streets wearing what appears to be men's boxer shorts, over which she has rigged a white garter belt, which holds up white lace stockings, which disappear into rhinestone boots. Madonna admits that Susan, except for her four-second attention span, is to some extent a self-caricature, and it remains to be seen what she could do with a role that required her to wear grown-ups' clothes. The guess here is that she would be very...
...flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...