Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Should U.S. firms pull out-or stay and work for change...
...with the aim of accelerating anti-apartheid efforts. "Will it work?" muses the chamber's president, Clifford Lyddon. "In the long run, I guess so, but the blacks are reluctant to take advantage of opportunities because they have grown up in an environment that says shut up and stay in your place." And while their ability to change that environment is necessarily limited, the companies' efforts to do what they can have varied widely...
...present the realistic course is for American business to stay in South Africa but to use its influence more effectively to bring about change. Despite pronouncements about being committed to ending apartheid, too many U.S. companies engage merely in tokenism. For example, in none of the 60 plants visited by McWhirter was a copy of the Sullivan Code easily available to nonwhite employees. Many local managers have moved too shyly and slowly to remove the most reprehensible barriers of apartheid and to advance nonwhites. But home offices could order their subsidiaries to act more forcefully. That is precisely the solution...
...freshman who wished to remain anonymous said some freshman proctors warned students that they could be arrested in a demonstration. "The general attitude was to stay away--it's radical, it could be an incriminating thing. I'm still kind of paranoid," she said...
...turning a chapter now... I'm 35 and there are those two major projects wrapping up now. I don't know what's next. The choice is to go off by myself and write or stay in show biz, try to get into some sort of team project. It would be hard for me to write something long and serious while staying in that New York-Los Angeles axis," he says...