Word: tracts
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Classes are in session from the northern Transvaal to Cape Province. Khayelitsha, a sandy, windswept tract along the South Atlantic coast, is the largest black township in the Cape Town area. Its small A.N.C. campaign office -- one of 94 around the country -- is a whitewashed single-story building in a neighborhood where thieves and vandals have driven out most residents and shopkeepers. Behind barred windows, regional secretary Richard Dyantyi, 24, a slim former marketing student, directs the A.N.C.'s organizational work. Though he has only one telephone, one fax and two reluctant copying machines, he has lots of helpers. Their...
RUNAWAY INFLATION? On July 14, 1978, Arkla Land Co. sold a 3,600-acre tract in northern Arkansas to a company called 101 River Development Inc. for a price equivalent to about $400 an acre. On Aug. 2, a 230-acre parcel was resold. The buyers: Bill and Hillary Clinton and James and Susan McDougal. A deed examined by TIME in the Marion County seat of Yellville is recorded in their individual names; tax stamps indicate the price was $203,000, or roughly $882 an acre -- more than double the per-acre price only 19 days earlier. Little more than...
Ozone is both a boon and a bane. High in the atmosphere, it protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays, but down near the planet's surface, it is a notorious pollutant which damages the respiratory tract and ruins trees and crops...
...their son's bed, into his very life. The moviemakers note that there have been nearly 700 kidnappings for ransom in Italy since 1986. They also observe that murderous clan warfare is a continuing fact of life in Calabria. But Flight of the Innocent is not primarily a sociological tract nor an exercise in save-the-children sentiment. Little Vito has no time for such abstractions. His life depends on the correctness of hasty impressions, silent intuitions of danger. The result is something much better than sentiment. It is something quite close to the high emotions classic tragedy is supposed...
Marion R. Herz, an environmental protection specialist in the EPA's Indoor Air Division, cited respiratory tract irritation, colds, sore throats and cancer as the major effects of second-hand smoke on college-aged young adults...