Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifth time in two weeks, the black trainee had failed to show up at his job at the Ford Motor Co. plant near South Africa's industrial capital of Port Elizabeth. He had asked for two hours off to answer a summons from the police, but failed to return to work. When a white foreman cautioned Thozamile Botha, 30, an intense former schoolteacher turned black activist who had worked for Ford for less than twelve months, to improve his attendance, Botha snapped, "Why don't you fire me?" He then stalked angrily out of the plant...
Instead of concentrating their organizing efforts on black academics, intellectuals or the young, as they have in the past, the leaders of black activist groups in Port Elizabeth and Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg, are now focusing on factory workers. Because black labor is essential to South Africa's economy, strikes by blacks constitute a potentially powerful weapon. Though Thozamile Botha, who heads the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organization (PEBCO), concedes that Ford is perhaps the "best" employer of blacks in the country, he has been prodding its management to respond to a long list of demands...
...landed at Hastings in 1066, fell out of the boat onto his shield and invented surfing, acquiring in the process a hugely swollen nose. Entwistle's own predecessor is a soused sea dog named Ahab, who goes about in a state of perpetual inebriation, spotting pink whales to port...
...bums weren't listening to either of them. They were draining the last of some old port, students were looking at debaters on the way to movies and rock 'n' roll shows...
...Episcopal nun now stationed in Boston had a very special Thanksgiving last week-and so did the people she had helped. In 1951 Sister Anne Marie Bickerstaff, a native of Richmond, Va., had gone to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to teach at a missionary school. She became impressed by the musical ability of some of her students, and was distressed that the island had no music school, no concert hall and no national orchestra...