Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Success in such broadsides varies. But hitting all stores concurrently is never as potent as the single-shot selective buying staged by Northern Negroes for job equality. Last year 300 Detroit ministers asked their congregations to bypass Tip Top bread and Borden's milk, and alerted nonchurchgoers among Detroit's 400,000 Negroes with catchy leaflets ("Lock the Gate. Elsie Won't Cooperate"). Negroes were soon hired or upgraded not only by those companies but by 40 more who got the message. Philadelphia ministers have singled out, among others, A. & P., Sun Oil, Tasty Baking...
...Coloreds speak only Afrikaans), they are denied full representation in Parliament, and are segregated in Colored neighborhoods; they may not compete with whites for many jobs or even enter a post office by the same door. Split between conservatives and radicals, the Coloreds have never been as potent a political force as the blacks, whose African National Congress, headed by Nobel Prizewinner and former Zulu Chief Albert Luthuli, has been banned since 1960. Today, 21,000 borderline Coloreds have yet to be classified; the two-thirds of them who are at the dark end of the spectrum live in constant...
...Gluecks had reported that "regardless of ethnic origin, color, religion, intelligence level, residence in urban or rural areas, economic level, or even sex, the predictive cluster is equally potent, not only on American but on Japanese and French samplings...
...negotiations, "even if it means a slowdown in our internal development." France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, whose government is afraid of U.S. competition in Europe, repeatedly muttered "absurd" as Schréder and other foreign ministers pressed their case. However, Schréder had a potent weapon. France, Europe's lowest-cost agricultural producer, is demanding that the Six adopt a uniform policy on farm prices by July. If this happens, Germany would be forced to find new work for at least a million of its high-cost farmers. Schréder warned that...
...crew to watch will be Winthrop House, which stands an outside chance of scoring an upset victory over the perennially potent Eliot eight...