Word: recon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Volkswagen's moves are certain to cause other foreign automakers to recon sider their plans for producing in the U.S. Volvo, which two years ago canceled plans to start production at the plant it owns in Chesapeake, Va., might be tempted to produce its new lightweight "Car of the Eighties" there. The Japanese, who face much the same currency problem as the Germans, are bound to consider American production seriously as a way to stop Volkswagen from regaining for good its old dominance over them...
...this question posed in fuller novelistic terms. For it was in his work The Marrow of Tradition that Charles Chestnutt suggested that ingrained racism--that man-hating ideology which lay at the very vital of the national character--was poisoning the nature of national life. He proposed filial recon-ciliation as the essential ingredient for the healing of the American spirit...
While Bell's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee could be lively, the committee is chaired by Mississippi's archconservative James O. Eastland, who urged Carter to appoint Bell. At week's end, moreover, some black organizations that had loudly opposed Bell appeared ready to recon sider in view of his pro-civil rights decisions. Certain Carter watchers, meanwhile, forecast that the President-elect will name some well-known civil rights activists to important jobs at Justice just to speed up the cooling-off process...
...means for enforcing those rules were in the control of a group of men who had dominated Texas politics for decades--the conservative Democrats. Although their specific interests had changed since the post-Civil War days when they had finally managed to wrest control away from the Republican Recon-structionists, these men only became more sophisticated in their dealings rather than more responsive to the needs of the people whom they had supposedly been elected to serve...
...next month on a de facto basis. This is far from certain, however. The Israelis have intercepted several Egyptian reconnaissance teams in Sinai, and last week four Egyptian Sukhois made two spy sweeps over Israeli lines on the Suez Canal. Earlier, Cairo complained that Israeli jets were making similar recon flights over Egyptian lines. Without a formal ceasefire, a single, accurate burst of antiaircraft fire by either side could swiftly get the hot war started all over again...