Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both inside and outside South Africa. Brigadier Jack Cronje testified that police kept files on all known antiapartheid activists. This, said Cronje, meant that anyone who took part in even the mildest form of protest, such as a consumer boycott, was under watch, and could be "eliminated...
...hardware businesses that were at the root of the last corporate nosedive. He parachuted Thoman into the firm's struggling PC division with a mandate to clean up the mess. Thoman killed some of the group's nearly 500 models of machines and breathed life into those he kept while pounding costs through the floor. In January, IBM spent twice as much and took twice as long to make a PC as industry leader Compaq. Now it claims it has No. 1 beat...
...much as they did. There's a reason: the better-risk customers are tapped out, having run up record levels of debt over the past couple of years in a spending boom. This anomaly, according to Joe Jolson, a leading analyst at Montgomery Securities, is "one of the best-kept secrets on Wall Street...
There's plenty of smart-car technology that is ready, however, and Japanese automakers are better positioned to bring it to market than their American competitors. While the U.S. has focused on the conduits, pouring tens of millions into advanced smart-highway systems, Japan has kept its eyes on nearer-term prizes, making its cars intelligent by adding one on-board feature at a time. It's an approach that could add value to the cars--and reap healthy profits for their makers--for decades to come, whether or not the smart highway arrives on schedule...
...easily won an April special election to fill that seat, and he's running now for his first full term. The son of sharecroppers, he vows to follow Mfume's path of liberalism and support for blacks and the urban poor. In his six months in office, Cummings has kept his vow, supporting economic development and affirmative action in black communities and sponsoring funding for urban teen centers to serve as alternatives to street gangs...