Word: historicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The historic event that sealed the fate of white Rhodesia and changed the life of every white man in Africa south of the Zambezi River was the Portuguese revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence...
By then, its role as a great power had paradoxically placed the country in the position of opposing its own historic origins and libertarian roots. In addition, the impressive progress of its economy had led to the creation of formidable nuclei of economic power, not subject to the constitutional controls...
Up till 1975, efforts towards winning a new Affirmative Action plan and protesting the University's historic anti-women, anti-national minority discrimination, were rather isolated from one another and relatively weak. The different movements (women's, national minorities', workers') operated separately and often eyed each other with mutual suspicion...
Blacks in the South have made greater strides than in the rest of the country and are more hopeful of the future. For this historic breakthrough, blacks themselves are primarily responsible. In the face of intense white resistance, their struggle for equality was bitter, costly and ultimately triumphant. But whites...
For scientists on both sides of the controversy the debate was historic: for the first time a local community was exerting control over scientific research. The impact of the decision was far-reaching, with newspapers in other countries calling for close scrutiny of similar research in their own academic communities...