Word: gerrit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sand dunes outside Cape Town, resulted in the deaths of 18 blacks and injuries to 250 others. It also brought calls from many in South Africa's shocked tricameral Parliament for a plan to allow the shantytown's 60,000 inhabitants to stay on permanently. Last week Gerrit Viljoen, South Africa's Minister of Cooperation and Development, conceded. He was prepared, he said, to allow "upgrading and development" of the area to provide adequate housing for those qualifying, based on the length of their residence and permanent employment. Speaking during a parliamentary debate on Crossroads' future, Viljoen said...
...township called Khayelitsha, some eight miles from Crossroads. Many blacks complained that the program was a scheme to confine them to remote quarters they could not afford and, worse still, to pit legal black workers against illegal squatters. Two days later, Minister of Cooperation and Development Gerrit Viljoen spoke of "speeding up preparations" for the relocation of all Crossroads settlers to Khayelitsha...
...International, the company has already struck a deal with N.V. Philips' Gloeilam-penfabrieken of The Netherlands to sell switching equipment throughout the world. Says Gerrit Jeelof, head of Philips' Telecommunications Division: "It was a natural marriage between two of the most desirable partners in the world." The new subsidary will pit AT&T against GTE and ITT in the European market, which it abandoned in 1925 to concentrate on the U.S. telephone system. AT&T and Philips could pry open an unusually tough market long closed to outside suppliers because of dominance by state-owned post, telephone...
...Gerrit J. Nichules '84, who bought the letter in late October, said the pyramid scheme is legal because participants did not use the U.S. Mail...
...Gerrit Nijland, a professor of industrial robotics at Berenschot Management Training Center in The Netherlands, has just concluded a study of the acceptance of the automatons in his country, where 70 firms currently use robots. He found that the most common form of sabotage was to slow down the machines by feeding them parts in the wrong order, with the hope that management would be disappointed in robot performance. In other cases, employees repaired the machines incorrectly, mislaid essential spare parts or put sand into the robots' lubricating oil. In one metal construction plant, production was reduced for more...