Word: strength
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ULTIMATELY, most factors point to the dissolution of white rule, although this dissolution will be slow in coming. It is not likely that peaceful black rule will follow, however. Despite his strength, Smith cannot hold out indefinitely, especially since his white constituents are leaving in massive numbers: 1490 whites took the "chicken run" out of the country in September, and 11,000 have left since January. Unfortunately, whites are taking with them much of the technical expertise and capital--the latter smuggled out despite restrictions--that will be needed to run a future majority-ruled black state. Escalated guerrilla attacks...
...social role. They predictably look back to the period they romanticized--pre-industrial society, a time when the authors say women had productive and meaningful lives. Making an unconvincing connection, the authors try to tie together the pre-industrial unity of "caring with craft," the "promise of a collective strength and knowledge" which they suddenly find in industrialized society, and "the impulses to truth in each one of us," and come up with a vague, radical solution...
Newton talks of a bright future. Although the Panthers now number no more than 500, roughly half their strength a decade ago, he sees them as "very much alive because our survival programs are alive." He has been studying at the University of California for a doctorate in the history of social consciousness, and he looks forward to teaching at the Panther school and participating in local politics. "I plan to work in Oakland," he says. "I love Oakland...
...happened. For instance, Toyota's U.S. sales fell almost 8% in the first nine months of 1978, partly because prices of new cars were lifted 13.9%. Yet, overall, sales of Japanese exports remain strong in the U.S., while sales of American products in Japan show little new strength...
...some good news about U.S. industry's competitive strength. In the third quarter of this year, according to a poll of 548 large companies by the Wall Street Journal, average aftertax profits were up by 21%, compared with the same period last year. Airlines and the steel industry posted big increases; General Motors' net income rose by 31% to $528 million, its highest quarterly earnings ever...