Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credit position has been badly hurt-losing some $115 million monthly on short-term capital accounts. As a result of deepening recession, black unemployment ranges up to 40%, and some 200,000 eligible black workers are out of jobs in Johannesburg alone. The government has discouraged business investment by scare talk of "total war" and an "economy of survival." One survey of white Johannesburg university students showed that 72% of them wanted to emigrate...
...students have defaulted on $413.6 million worth of debt, either by declaring bankruptcy or simply refusing to pay. Neither the colleges nor the Government has yet seemed able to enforce repayment. But the loan default rate, now 12.3% and climbing, has finally frightened the Office of Education into some scare tactics...
...worry about television's lopsided history lessons. Last year's Truman at Potsdam made out that his primary motive in dropping the A-bomb on Japan was not to end the war. In Truman's "own" words: "It is not Japan I'm trying to scare, but Russia...
...most patients remained contagious and suffered the progressively crippling and deforming effects of the disease. Many appeared to lose their noses because the bone is absorbed into adjacent tissues. The same thing happened to the finger bones; the fingers do not become gangrenous and drop off, as many scare stories have it, but the bones are gradually broken down and absorbed until the hand is left with only short stumps where fingers and thumb should be. Foot drop-paralysis caused by nerve damage to the muscles that control lifting of the foot-is also a common feature of leprosy...
...better time than this rapidly concluding summer. Solid comedies with a very human touch have been in short supply this year; Outrageous! deserves a warm note of gratitude on that score alone. More significantly, however, this movie will serve as a perfect--though undoubtedly unintentional--counterpoint to the pink scare raised by the Florida Sunshine Tree gal and her band of bigots. Outside of the sensitive movie-for-T.V. Suddenly Last Summer, the media has handed homosexuals a pretty raw deal over the last ten years, protests of increasing tolerance notwithstanding. Outrageous! will go a long way towards remedying...