Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy maintains, however, that the builders share much of the blame for what it calls "cost growth." The admirals cite low worker productivity at the shipyards, long delays in deliveries from subcontractors and an uneconomical and unwise expansion of productive capacity. Nonetheless, Navy Secretary Claytor concedes that "there is enough blame for everyone concerned...
...Republic in 1958 to push a left-wing coalition regime into power. What shook the Communists was not just the unexpected victory by the center-right coalition led by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing but also the weakness of their own performance. The party's share of the total vote (20.6%) slumped to a ten-year low, and that became even worse when gauged against the small increase gained by the Socialists, who emerged with 22.6% of the vote, thus confirming their position as the dominant party on the left...
...successor, Hans Brunhart, head of the Fatherland Union Party, but Kieber nonetheless refused to step down. The impasse virtually paralyzed Liechtenstein's government for two months. Last week the head of state, Prince Franz Josef II, 71, stepped in to render judgment: both Kieber and Brunhart could share the job. Now Liechtenstein, where only Switzerland maintains an embassy, has twice as many Foreign Ministers as it has foreign ambassadors...
...there seems to be at least one factor I have heard no one discuss. Any number of student placards have proclaimed that "Harvard Profits from Apartheid" and the like. I wonder whether the bearers of such signs realize that they, as the principal raison d'etre of the University, share in whatever profits of oppression our South African holdings may support...
...even if the companies did improve work conditions--letting Africans share restrooms and cafeterias with whites, for instance--it would not in any way compensate blacks for the whole racist apartheid system, which keeps blacks out of skilled jobs, forces them into migrant labor, systematically breaks apart families, and denies them basic rights of citizenship and franchise...