Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes to a halt in the factories, the marketplaces and the public squares. Men assemble their prayer rugs near an amplified sound system if there is no time or inclination to go inside a mosque; women frequently pray at home. Others perform the required ablutions and pray wherever they happen to be. A tennis pro in white shorts will place his racquet alongside the court at the sports club and say his prayers. An airline steward will spread out a towel in the corridor of a plane to pray. Workers in the fields will remove their boots at noon...
...already trying to take over local administration by dispatching district commissioners to towns it controls in southern and western Uganda. The Front was also prepared to establish a new government in Kampala once the city was firmly under its control. No one could be quite sure when that would happen. Amin might decide to make a brave last stand at Jinja, or he might simply flee to either Libya or neighboring Kenya. But it was also not beyond belief that Big Daddy would simply disappear into the bush, and carry on with a government-in-exile somewhere in the wilds...
Tomorrow's major challenge for U.S. corporations, says Diebold, will be to meet employee desires for a greater voice in decision making. In Europe some unionists sit on boards, and Diebold observes: "A lot of American businessmen are saying, 'Thank God, it's not going to happen here.' " Indeed American work ers do not want to be directors, but, Diebold argues, "their desires to have some participation are just as real here as in Europe. We could get genuine increases in productivity by involving employees in decision making much closer to their levels of work...
...received death threats laced with racial epithets. Parker is both puzzled and angry over such incidents: "I knew things would be different because of the contract. I expected to be under a magnifying glass. But I never expected this kind of thing. I don't know what will happen, but I do know that I've got to sleep in my home without fear; I've got to know that when I go home my house will be there. The only way I can fight back is by playing as hard as I can. Maybe then, people...
While Kirk concedes that such upsets are "part of the fine-tuning" that goes into establishing a varsity line-up, she is determined that "it won't happen again...