Word: partiality
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Botha's concessions, which the Reagan Administration supports and considers to be a partial vindication of its policy of constructive engagement, were too much for Afrikaner hard-liners but not nearly enough for black political leaders of any persuasion. Unhappily for the government, the reforms coincided with a deepening economic crisis, the worst, in some Johannesburg analysts' view, since 1929. The price of gold, which provides more than 50% of South African export earnings, has held stagnant since 1983, and inflation (now 16%) and unemployment (estimated at 8.4% among the work force) were on the rise. The recession hit blacks...
...This is what happened in South Africa,” Amoo said. “You had the symbolic divestment of a few companies, but the actual full divestment never occurring. So we don’t want to legitimize a partial divestment...
...spectators who can return from the scene to bear witness. The complete witness can never come back. As a result, the glance reconstituted by the witness can never come back. As a result, the glance reconstituted by the witness or represented by the artist can only be partial. If this inherent inadequacy of representations does not excuse the frolicking Roberto Benigni from critique, it does explain the indignation that almost every Holocaust film provokes among some portion of its viewers and critics...
...Estimated height of a cloud of steam and ash ejected during last week's partial eruption of Mount St. Helens outside Longview, Washington...
...East invariably moves a few steps forward--then a few steps back. Even as thousands of Lebanese gathered in Beirut's Martyrs' Square on Saturday to call on Syria to end its occupation, thousands of Syrians cheered Assad as he told his parliament that he would make only a partial pullback of Syrian forces. "Bush, Bush, listen. The Syrian people will not bow!" chanted the crowd...