Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lies decisively on the side of withdrawal, I acknowledge that there is room for disagreement regarding the potential benefits of progressive employment practices, the importance of American investment and technology to South Africa, the usefulness of a positive American example to other firms, and other points discussed in your report of last April. Of crucial importance, however, is an argument to which your report gives a passing allusion, but no refutation: the effect of American investments in South Africa on American foreign policy...
...sooner had President Jimmy Carter announced his historic, late Sunday-night summit agreement between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin than TIME'S correspondents were off to report on the consequences for this week's issue. Donald Neff joined Secretary of State Cyrus Vance on a flight to Jordan; Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn accompanied Sadat on his trip home; Dean Fischer interviewed Begin in New York City and then flew to Israel to await his arrival; Christopher Ogden and Laurence I. Barrett reported from Washington...
...Your report on the 16 million children of Brazil who must live on the streets of the cities [Sept. 11] should be required reading for all American schoolchildren. When children start cussing out their parents and wishing they were dead, they might be reminded that in Brazil their parents might have thrown them out on the street when they were only four...
...should come as a surprise to no one that a Harvard portfolio company has played a key role in bolstering South Africa's illegal presence in Namibia. According to its most recently published reports, Harvard owns more than $2.5 million worth of shares in AMAX, Inc., the U.S. mining multinational. AMAX, in turn, owns one-third of Tsumeb Corporation, the copper mining company that employs more African labor in Namibia than any other firm. In a recent annual report, AMAX bragged that Tsumeb has finally trained a few of its 5000 African workers to fill such semi-skilled posts...
...false notes here tonight. Everyone is completely convinced that your uncle is going to be re-elected. I can tell you that if there were the slightest doubt of the outcome tonight, this room and the sidewalk outside would not be crawling with people. Oh, the faithful would report, to be sure; they always do. But the scavengers--and they are rather more numerous, dear boy, than you might think--would not. They take no chances, you see. They report en masse only when the sure thing is at hand. They do not begin to circle until the footsteps stagger...