Word: share
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...efforts or motivation to succeed within a collective group. This is a result of the poor communalistic life that posed no opportunity for the individuals to transcend community life. We still face this problem in our rural areas in Africa, where a group could be content to live and share their poverty. This has contributed to making the individual lazy and impotent. Another great inherited fault that still exists in many Africans is that of readily accepting a situation as a predestined one. The mystery of the pre-colonial African was that he had never questioned anything that was inexplicable...
Businessmen strongly oppose Nelson's scheme. But having them pay the lion's share of the increased taxes until the 21st century meets with the approval of Jimmy Carter?even though the extra costs would doubtless be passed along to consumers in the form of higher prices...
...citizen of that African nation. Furthermore, he notes that racial differences, as they are commonly perceived, are a superficial and recent development, having arisen only about 15,000 years ago. Says Leakey: "I am aghast that people think they are different from each other. We all share...
...columnists are too competitive to be "orchestrated ; but they do move in the same circles and have a common need to catch the reader's eye three times a week or so. They share an environment they do not often leave...
...everyone, that is, except American Motors?as usual. Alone among the four U.S. automakers, it suffered a sales decline, of a sharp 28.6%. That cut its long-sliding share of the U.S. market (excluding imports) from an already poor 2.9% last year to a nearly invisible 1.9% during the October period (its high was 6.4% in 1963). It was an inauspicious week for a new driver to take over. Nonetheless, Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., the man most closely associated with AMC's long struggle for survival, handed over the chief executive's job to President Gerald C. Meyers. Chapin...