Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stayaways" but have not managed to organize the kind of prolonged general strike that could bring the economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution in sight...
...suit filed by the A.C.L.U. resulted last month in a modification of those tactics. Visitors may now obtain guest cards allowing them to stay in a building for as long as two weeks. And housing agents and police have agreed to stop house and body searches. But the sweeps go on, to the relief of tenants. "It's so much better since the sweeps," says Delores Wilson, president of a tenants group. "Before, you could hear machine-gun fire all during the day." The danger is that as they search for a way out of the drug crisis, many other...
Police were ordered to stay away from the center of Cape Town during the march Wednesday, which was held to protest police brutality...
...Foreign Cultures realm, the word is, "Stay at home." Such staples as "Sources of Indian Civilization," "Shogun" and "Carribean Societies" are not being offered, although Middle Eastern buffs might want to check out Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies Houchang E. Chehabi's fall class on "Society, Religion, and Politics in Iran...
Kenney says he plans to stay in the United States one more year before crossing the Atlantic next fall. Not unlike other aspiring American pros, Kenney hopes to fulfill The Dream: playing for the national team when the 1994 World Cup hits the States...