Word: stewards
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Sheriff Fraker, along with others in the area, assumed that the family's dire economic circumstances had pushed Kirk over the edge. It seemed to be yet one more tragic testament to the desperation of so many of the country's debt- burdened family farmers. Said the Rev. Wilburn Steward at a funeral service for the slain family attended by more than 500: "In mankind, there's a breaking point. Something in Kirk had reached that point, and he just snapped...
...Although a strike is always likely, the community should be spared that terrible disrupture," said Andrea Ross, chief steward of the union of clerics and technicians...
Politically, South African leaders maintain that sanctions have, if anything, proved counterproductive to the aspirations of apartheid's foes. Says David Steward, head of the government's Bureau for Information: "If it is truly the U.S. aim to bring about change in South Africa -- supposing for one moment that the U.S. has any right to interfere in our affairs -- sanctions are the worst possible way of trying to achieve this end." That argument is, of course, self-serving. But the government strummed loudly on the sanctions issue during South Africa's parliamentary election campaign earlier this year. Voter resentment over...
...stories and projects each week. Their job: to gather documentation for virtually every fact that appears in the magazine and to provide reporting and background material for the writers. Through her staff of reporter-researchers, Satterwhite, who became the magazine's eighth research chief in 1984, is the ultimate steward of TIME's accuracy. She is outspokenly proud of her staff's contribution to the magazine. "There is no question," she says, "that research provides a richer lode for our writers to mine and enhance their stories. Fortunately, our reporter-researchers have a voracious appetite for news, are sticklers...
...fact that Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike by GM workers after the company's withdrawal. As Mr. Wilson Jonas, a former union shop steward at Ford, said "For me as a leader to say I'm for disinvestment, knowing that I'm sending thousands of people into darkness is something I can't do. The rank and file don't understand about the sacrifices you have to make to get long-term benefits. They...