Word: rand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they can call their own, the anti-nuclear advocates carry on despite 20 years of null impact on American or Soviet policy. It's ironic that until very recently, both this nation's nuclear strategists and their foes still relied on vintage 60's ideas, one set from the Rand Corporation and the other from Columbia pictures...
...prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says the recidivism rate of such offenders is impressively low, "usually less than 20%." And many keep their jobs, she adds. "That's the real glimmer of hope -- that in the long run these people will become functioning members of the community...
...almost unbearable heat of Durban Deep, a gold mine at Roodeport, ten miles west of Johannesburg. He has worked nearly 300 days in the past year, but he will not work tomorrow. After the paymaster hands him a brown envelope containing his monthly wages of 270 rand ($122), Olebogeng is ready to travel more than 300 miles to celebrate Christmas with his family, whom he has not seen in nearly a year. "They will slaughter a goat to mark my return," he says with a smile...
Before he did anything else, however, Olebogeng had to give his father the present that made his year in the mines bearable: his savings of 1,010 rand ($450). "Pick a goat," he said with glee, anticipating the feast to come. Meanwhile, his brother James, 13, popped a cassette into Vincent's battery- powered stereo. The sounds of the Isilingo Soul Brothers wafted over the plain. Vincent Olebogeng was home, and Durban Deep seemed very far away...
...nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships in its waters, was the most serious blow to any U.S. alliance in 20 years. Antinuclear activism, spurred in part by continued French nuclear testing in Mururoa, has spread through the South Pacific. According to Harry Gelman, a political analyst at the Rand Corp., the Soviets hope to benefit "by identifying the United States in Asian eyes with the nuclear danger...