Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American companies have invested a total of $1.5 billion in South Africa, and they are the chief purveyors of its modern technology and consumer goods. Ford, South Africa's biggest automaker (1977 sales: 42,874 vehicles), and GM together account for 26% of the automotive market. Goodyear, General and Firestone dominate tire sales; Exxon, Mobil and Caltex are leaders at the fuel pumps. Kellogg's cereals are found on 40% of South Africa's breakfast tables, and Otis elevators convey riders in two of every five office buildings. IBM enjoys a near monopoly in data processing, challenged...
These steps scarcely add up to anything like a general U.S. corporate retreat-nor should they. In South Africa itself, such a withdrawal is a strategy favored mainly by some white liberals and middle-class black activists. Though they often talk pullout in public, the black militants within the labor force are far more pragmatic in private. A black union leader told McWhirter: "I would say companies should withdraw. But if they did, it would be death...
Merigliano said Postmaster General William Bolger engaged in unfair labor practices because he came back to the bargaining table with a lower offer than he had originally proposed...
...growth of extension education in general has become a national phenomenon, Shinagel said, adding that more adults are participating in some form of continuing education than ever before...
...freshman who wished to remain anonymous said some freshman proctors warned students that they could be arrested in a demonstration. "The general attitude was to stay away--it's radical, it could be an incriminating thing. I'm still kind of paranoid," she said...