Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diver Gregory Robertson, 35, could see that Debbie Williams, 31, a fellow parachutist with a modest 50 jumps to her credit, was in big trouble. Instead of "floating" in the proper stretched-out position parallel to the earth, Williams was tumbling like a rag doll. In attempting to join three other divers in a handholding ring formation, she had slammed into the backpack of another chutist, and was knocked unconscious...
...churchman as he glances at the acacias and bougainvilleas blooming outside the window of his study. "And by that I mean it's a revolution of ideas, a revolution of our system of values. We are forced -- even if we don't like it -- we are simply forced to join hands and to share power. We can't go on any longer as we did for the past 300 years. We've got to change...
...George Walker, who quit his job as a bank executive to join a foundation working for an end to apartheid: "Change in this country has to come from us Afrikaners. And I want...
...attend any receptions where blacks or coloreds might be present; that the Afrikaner poet Breyten Breytenbach was denied permission to bring his Vietnamese wife into the country to meet his parents; that a black workman could hold two wires for a white electrician but was not allowed to join them together...
...banks cannot join in the rapidly growing and profitable business of underwriting and dealing in the newly created loan securities. That kind of service, along with virtually all securities activity, is reserved by the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act for investment houses only. Says George Salem, who follows the banking industry for the Manhattan-based investment firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette: "Without loan selling and investment-banking products, the big banks will go the way of the dinosaur...