Word: jamaican
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...little further south, Jamaican reggae producer Joe Gibbs has compiled a group of his favorite artists to give us a Christmas ganja-style. Replete with dub noises and other rasta effects. Regeae Christmas brings the spirit of Marley's ghost (Bob that is) to interpretations of old holiday faves and new Christmas songs alike "I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas, a blistering, syncopated reworking of an old chestnut will keep serious music lovers swinging for many holidays to come
...Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide their racial identity behind...
Earl MacLaren, a 34-year-old Black Jamaican who has already earned an MBA and worked for the Exson Corp. said that many corporate firms seek "bright-eyed types who have never worked before, in whom they can breed a certain loyalty with library work for three or four years...
...Obie sped back to Washington on the Concorde last weekend, George Shultz began readjusting to the role of public power. He was given the honor of being the last to board the plane, waiting until even Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga had been seated. Two camera crews stumbled in the aisles as the chunky man with the healthy California tan took his place. And on the 3½-hr. flight, he conducted impromptu diplomacy, listening as Seaga urged faster progress on Reagan's plan for aid to the Caribbean Basin...
Pillsbury and Colgate-Palmolive operate there. Jamaica stands to receive some $50 million from the Reagan program, but that would fall far short of the $687 million that Jamaican planners want to pour into 424 development projects they are now studying...