Word: shores
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...Africa have been under , way since December, but sometimes it seems as if the extremes -- white and black -- might first pull the country apart. The growing strength of the pro- apartheid Conservative Party has forced President F.W. de Klerk to hold a whites-only referendum on March 17 to shore up support for multiracial democracy. Meanwhile, black ultranationalists are demanding nothing less than De Klerk's surrender of power. With the old order crumbling and the shape of the new uncertain, the country is riper than ever for the destructive influence of militants. Here are encounters with two of them...
Beyond this effort to shore up the publishing side, insiders expect Levin to make few sharp changes in Time Warner's direction -- at least not quickly. "He'll discuss, he'll debate," says Michael Fuchs, chairman and CEO of Home Box Office, Levin's corporate alma mater. "Jerry's style is not to make dramatic moves. He's a plodder with a lot of patience. He has the most long- term view in the company...
...Endangered Species Act, passed in 1973, unequivocally protects all endangered species from any human activity that would push them closer to extinction. This applies not only to cute little shore birds caught in oil spills, but also to rare species of beetles and other less cuddly creatures that happen to live on private property. The development of many small businesses has been halted by the government because the land in question is a rare bug's natural habitat...
...Kitingans were at the forefront of those demanding more equality for Sabah in the form of redistribution of revenue from Sabahan resources, such as changing Sabah's off-shore oil drilling profit share from five percent to 50 percent...
...estate industry. At a time when the U.S. is dramatically overbuilt in commercial real estate -- some large cities are so overstocked with vacant offices it will take 10 years to fill them -- it makes little sense to add tax incentives to encourage more building. Bush no doubt wants to shore up the sagging fortunes of developers and the home values of middle-class voters, but it is hard to see how adding more mini-malls and * office complexes to the landscape will help either constituency. One leading G.O.P. official, grimacing at the size of the real estate tax break, described...