Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theory, an argument could perhaps be made for a homelands policy?but not as the South African government has designed it. If every black in South Africa were to move to his ancestral homeland, 70% of the population would be packed into 13% of the land, much of it arid and unprofitable. Only one homeland, Basotho-QwaQwa, is composed of a single piece of land. The others are broken into two or more parts, surrounded by white South Africa. KwaZulu was in 29 pieces five years ago, but eventually will be consolidated into six. Homeland leaders are demanding more land...
...homelands and an expanding franchise for blacks within South Africa. Eventually, Ball suggested, as have others, there might be some form of partition?an extension, perhaps, of the homelands policy?with greatly enlarged black states retaining some sort of confederal relationship with Pretoria. Demanding that South Africa move immediately toward one man, one vote, Ball points out, is futile; in the present context, the South Africans could not be induced to accept it, fearing that they would be swamped by a tide of black nationalism...
...cost $100,000 to construct and contains two baths with telephones and miniature Sony TV sets. A similarly posh addition is planned eventually for Reno, where the company faces new competition next year from two large hotels now under construction, the MGM Grand and the Sahara. In still another move designed to boost income, Harrah's has begun manufacturing more $1 one-armed bandits-slot machines that take a dollar to play. They produce higher revenue per pull and are even more profitable than the company's moneymaking nickel and dime slots...
Telling beat out four other Sears executives, including President Dean Swift, who some thought had the inside track. But Swift had been neutral in the fashion v. tradition battle; Telling strongly supported the move back to the middle market and, since he was boss of all field operations, his voice was decisive. Says he: "We are not Bloomingdale's or K mart. We are once again back to where people feel comfortable with us." The move has been a huge success: Sears' sales of $15 billion and profits of $695 million in 1976 both set records...
This widespread skepticism persists alongside, and maybe partly as a result of, an inextinguishable American optimism-the belief that the country will somehow solve every problem. Together, skepticism and optimism thwart all efforts to move the public. The skeptical citizen, finally, cannot possibly see anything to be gained or any self-interest to be served by cutting down on the normal use of energy...