Word: vicious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right--it is "relatively ineffective" to ask companies operating in South Africa if they would mind desegregating their lunchrooms, as per the Sullivan Principles. For one thing, the South African government won't let them do it. For another, a desegregated lunchroom doesn't do away with a vicious migrant labor system which confines hundreds of thousands of black South Africans to miserable shantytowns located at a discreet remove from South Africa's modern cities. Nor does it prevent a regime from charging black South Africans tuition for a sub-standard education while providing white South Africans with a decent...
...then be served well by younger editions of themselves, might not have been served differently. They might wonder if the demands of the institution might not have allowed some room for human considerations; they might wonder if the imperatives of imagined greatness, of dealing rationally and efficiently with a vicious world, precluded so completely a concern for the lives and feelings of those who were not great. If they are truly human, they will consider these matters in 30 years; if they are truly wise, they will consider them...
...York City with fatigue from participating in the U.N. debate on Hanoi's takeover). In Kompong Som the two sides were fighting street to street and hand to hand for control of Cambodia's sole deep-water port, 136 miles southwest of Phnom-Penh (see map). Vicious fighting continued in the Mondolkiri forest as well, and at Siem Reap and Kampot, where Khmers who had been chased out of the town retaliated by shelling it from surrounding mountains...
...impact of the change of government in Iran: Bakhtiar has said that Iran will not be a policeman of the Persian Gulf region. That is wise of him; no one wants him to fill that role. That leaves Iraq, and I consider the Iraqis much more vicious than the Soviets. You know that the Iraqis consider Kuwait to be an Iraqi province; I would not be surprised at any time to hear that they have taken it over. As for Egypt, its commitment to defend [Kuwait and Saudi Arabia] the moment they are attacked still prevails and will continue...
...Methodist University is wrestling with a cumulative deficit of $6 million. "We're caught between the goddam rate of inflation and the miserable performance of the stock market," says University of Chicago Provost Gale Johnson. "Our costs go up, and our endowment goes down. It's a vicious crossfire...