Word: entrenched
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...effective veto over any Assembly decision. Moreover, the Ovambo tribe, which makes up roughly half of Namibia's population, has been given only one of the eight Cabinet seats, while whites, who constitute less than 8%, hold two. Western diplomats in the region suggest that South Africa aims to entrench a friendly government that will eventually force SWAPO, the predominantly Ovambo South-West African People's Organization, to turn from guerrilla warfare to political compromise. SWAPO, which has been at war with South Africa since 1966, refuses to join the new government...
...most popular pays nor one of his best written. Skipping over the Judgement of Paris and the tale of the wooden horse--two eminently more interesting anecdotes from the Trojan War--Shakespeare begins his story seven years into the conflict when armed engagement has reached a standstill. Both armies entrench while their respective leaders reconsider their strategies. Ulysses (Adam Smith Albion), a sort of Greek Henry Kissinger, formulates a plan which will serve the dual purpose of reanimating the Greeks best fighter, the now lazy and spaced-out Achilles (Patrick Bradford), as well as do away with the Trojan...
Greenmailers like Icahn contend that acquisitions serve a useful purpose by ousting incompetent managers who fail to make the most of a company's assets. He argues that if antigreenmail laws are enacted, they should be accompanied by measures to ensure that bad bosses cannot entrench themselves at the expense of shareholders. Actually, it is usually the stockholders, who do not have the same opportunity to sell their stock at a premium price, who are hurt by greenmail...
...Conway also argues against general corporate divestiture from South Africa who is intimately involved with the situation in that country and whose sympathy lies with the majority Black population. As such he proceeds to blast students and scholars for "self-righteously" advocating divestment, which, he claims, would "help entrench apartheid" and lead to "increased Black poverty." By mentioning that we do this "from the lofty citadels at Harvard," he insinuates that we are very far removed from the situation in South Africa--perhaps too far to make an intelligent judgement about what is best for its people...
...Black people who will suffer most. A lower economic growth rate and increased unemployment will follow. This weakens the trade union movement which has been effective of late in forcing change. A rapid economic growth rate destroys aparthied. Those students and academics that advocate disinvestment help entrench aparthied. They support increased Black poverty leading supposedly to violent revolution and Black suffering within the country. This they do self righteously from the lofty citadels at Harvard University...