Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.O. press office, inquiries are made about the "children of war." There is a swift, sudden commotion. Yasser Arafat enters the room surrounded by bodyguards. He appears diminished, weary; the energy seems forced. Yes, he will take questions...
...mine owners' reaction was swift and severe. Only hours after the smoke had cleared, thousands of black workers received dismissal notices and were preparing to be bused back to their tribal homelands. At West Driefontein mine, 1,233 blacks out of a work force of 12,000 were fired and sent home; 2,000 were transported from the Kloof gold mine. Those remaining were warned that their contracts would be revoked if they refused to join their work shift. Said one mine manager: "We'll have no trouble replacing the men who left. It will just take some...
Slow growth and swift inflation stymie rich and poor nations alike
While nations have struggled with the twin scourges of swift inflation and slow economic growth, millions of people have lost their jobs. Steep interest rates have destroyed thousands of businesses. Countless companies have been unable to modernize obsolete factories. The promise of economic expansion, always the driving force of capitalism, suddenly seems in jeopardy...
...refinery in Bahrain. From that early association, a long-lasting-and profitable-Saudi friendship flowered. In 1948 a team of Bechtel engineers mobilized an army of 5,000 local laborers to build the greater part of the 1,068-mile-long Trans-Arabian pipeline. Bechtel's swift execution of the mammoth job, as well as its skillful handling of local labor, added enormously to the firm's Middle East reputation...