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...real purpose behind the homeland policy is transparent: to assure continued Afrikaner dominance. Blacks will remain in white South Africa because they must have jobs???and because they are desperately needed by industry as a source of labor. Without them, the country's economy would collapse overnight. But politically their presence is an embarrassment to the government because they outnumber the whites by so wide a margin. Now, when an urban black's theoretical homeland becomes independent, he automatically becomes a citizen of that homeland?and is even dropped from the South African census figures. In reality, of course...
...part-time prison minister in Rochester; two are professors at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass.; the Rev. Lee McGee is a chaplain at Washington's American University. Alison Cheek, of course, has her church work in Washington. But most of the others are working at secular jobs???because they cannot get anything else...
...Service trades account for an increasing share of sales and jobs???54% of all employment in the U.S.?and it is tough for service businesses to offset wage increases by improving productivity. So they keep on raising prices...
...George McGovern's prairie, the dreams faded in the '20s. Mitchell would never be Detroit. For some reason?climate, falling farm prices, no jobs???people left South Dakota. Instead of the sunny optimism that glowed through the hard years in California, there was little more than grasshoppers and blizzards in answer to the prayers of country parsons. They were people who felt overpowered not only by the elements but by other men. McGovern saw it from the front pew, saw it when he hunted rabbits over the parched countryside. Always there were the Scriptures ringing in his head?someone worse...
...jewelry to pay some of them off, and had their home phone disconnected when hoods started calling him to demand the rest of their payment. He and a friend sold phony ads for a nonexistent labor newspaper until the racket got too hot to handle; then Elliott took odd jobs???as a rug-cleaner salesman, a theatrical-school teacher, night elevator man in a residential hotel. Around this time, things seemed to pick up. He got a summer job in Hit the Deck, which led to a chorus job in Irma La Douce, which led to an audition for lead...