Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play's portrayal of the present depresses, its vision of the future does not. At the end, we see the growing militancy of the younger generation of South African blacks, informed by American black writers like James Baldwin and by the anger produced by apartheid. As they move forward singing, there can be no doubt that the struggle that has begun will not end, as the actors in Survival put it, until South Africa's blacks have claimed their rightful share, their place...
...style. The East has a love-hate relationship with the fun-loving West. New Yorkers put down California culture and California parties such as the one Woody Allen parodied in Annie Hall--but deep down some of them secretly long to live that California life. The 500 people who move into California each day include an awful lot of New Yorkers...
...eleven of the 14 trading days so far in 1978, for a decline of 54 points, and it closed last week at 776.94. In stock traders' minds, worries about inflation, interest rates and the dollar have outweighed all the good news. Though the stock market does not directly move the economy, it can have an important psychological effect by making people feel poorer?and with reason. Says Albert H. Cox, chief economist of Merrill Lynch, the brokerage giant: "By our estimates, at this point almost $100 billion worth of values in listed stocks has been wiped away?$62 billion last...
...another move to counter the impact of the document, the Communists stepped up their accusations that the Federal Republic had been guilty of spying on the East. Immediately after the manifesto's publication, the East German news agency A.D.N. reported that Günter Weinhold, 40, a senior official in the West Berlin government finance department, had been arrested in East Germany for espionage. Last week courts in East Berlin meted out sentences of seven to twelve years to three West Germans charged with spying. Meanwhile, Bonn believes, the East Germans are stepping up their intelligence activities...
...coastline's natural systems. Sand, she writes, is the basic ingredient of most coasts, and though it appears insubstantial, plays a major role in buffering the land's boundaries from the pounding of the sea. "Sand meets water's force with its natural tendency to move," observes Mrs. Simon. "Its soft answer turns away the sea's wrath." Wet lands-marshes, swamps and coastal grass-also play a part, nourishing every thing from birds to bivalves. They also stabilize shores, absorbing flood water, releasing it slowly, and in the process protecting the land behind them...