Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighbors or from any foreign power that happened to fancy a little low-risk mischiefmaking. Geopolitical predictions in Africa have always been risky; now the realities have all but reached the Cape of Good Hope. If, by the end of 1978, Vorster has failed to make a significant step toward ending his country's discrimination against the non-white 83%, he may well face for the first time the threat of invasion...
...Vorster's acquaintances would agree that the dour Afrikaner is a strange leader for an age of reform. Says Chief Gatsha Buthelezi of the Zulus, South Africa's largest tribe: "When I'm in church and I'm singing, 1 love not to see the distant scene: one step enough for me,' I think of John Vorster. He's not prepared to go far enough." Adds one of Vorster's own Cabinet ministers: "John's heart has always been in the ox-wagon wing of the party. His head told him it was time to be more liberal...
...birth of the U.S. marked the first step in the decolonization of this continent, as well as the formation of a new society. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed in 1776 was a harvesting of the most important fruits of the Enlightenment, a synthesis of centuries of Old World experience serving a young society, one that had shed the age-old burden of stratification into social estates...
Striking Brown University dining hall and maintenance workers moved a step closer to an agreement in their 100-day-old contract dispute with the Brown administration when the workers agreed last night to discuss a new administration wage proposal...
...Ford, auto workers will receive 13 paid days off per year, in addition to the 33 holiday and vacation days they already receive off. This section of the contract--Ford's opposition to it prompted the 22-day strike against the company on September 14--is a conscious first step for the union in its future plans for the auto industry. The increase in paid days off, union officials hope, will force auto industrialists to add more workers without wage cuts for union members already holding jobs...