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...North. The proportion of black Americans living in the South fell from 78% in 1900 to 43% in 1975. Lately, however, lessening racism and rapid economic growth have begun to reverse the trend. Many Northern blacks are apprehensive about the South, and some of those who left retain traumatic memories. But countless blacks are moving to the South, fleeing the Northern cities' high crime rates, high prices and deteriorating schools. For the most part, the people moving South are middleclass, educated blacks, who are better equipped than poorer blacks to take advantage of the region's new opportunities...
...suite, Reagan spoke about the future-and, as always, of his credibility. "I still consider myself a nonpolitician, no matter what people think of the Schweiker selection," he said. Now it seemed an almost absurd claim. "My concern through this whole thing," he went on, "has been to retain my credibility." Reagan thought he had done that, but others saw it differently. Said a longtime political supporter in California: "He's lost his place as the high priest of the right. After Schweiker, all he can do is preach unity, not purity." Reagan intends to start up his preaching...
...retained earnings, they are a prime source of the investments in new plant and machinery that increase production, improve product quality and create jobs. Aggressive and innovative companies often retain high percentages of their profits for expansion. One example: Levi Strauss & Co., whose jeans clothe the world. The company, a large share of whose stock is owned by the Haas family, generally retains nearly 90% of its profits for reinvestment, like the recent opening of a new factory in the little town of Roswell, N. Mex. The plant created 350 new jobs, each at a cost to the company...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt to indicate omnipresent memories of glories past. As the audience enters, a young man is shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play...
...been very conservative about this. I would phase it hi very cautiously and without much increase in what we are spending overall now. Historically there's been a high correlation between Democratic Administrations and balanced budgets and between Republican Administrations and gross deficits. I would retain that commitment...