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...white mineworkers and their 700,000 black counterparts (the 1980 average: 1,077 rands a month for whites vs. 169 a month for blacks). Black workers, whose base pay raises are set by the South African Chamber of Mines, can receive a higher raise only at the whim of their employers. Blacks are also victims of a system of "job reservation," under which the highest-paid jobs are reserved for whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Pay Rage | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...surprising incident, the night before a College Bowl competition in December. Rapkin said, he had a whim to carefully examine the back of a $1 bill. Strangely, one of the first questions the next day was: "What is on the back of a dollar bill?" Rapkin's team answered the question and went on to win the match...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Trivia Champions | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

Physics, too, seems capricious. Like mathematicians, Jakob notes, the physicists assume at whim and derive the consequences. Classical physics, at least, seemed more commonsensical; it had an other-worldly quality that lent its explanations an almost spiritual legitimacy. Equations alone lacked this aura. Classical physics' beauty, to Jakob, sprang from this peculiar marriage of the physical and the mystical...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Impossible Dreams | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...MOST WINNING PART of this winning picture is the deeply felt characters that writer and director Barry Levinson has sketched out. Most complex, perhaps, is Fenwick (Kevin Bacon), whom we first see punching out window panes at a dance because on a whim he has just sold for five dollars the girl he brought. At first he seems like a typical 1950s tough, who is alternating between boasting and acting morose, playing sick practical jokes on his buddies, and finally flipping out at a nativity scene, stripping to his short and insisting on playing little baby Jesus. But Fenwick...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: A Four-Star Diner | 4/8/1982 | See Source »

Anyone who lives on the West Bank cannot escape some sort of contact with the Israeli soldiers. For many of us, this is often brutal and dehumanizing. They hassle people at whim. They stop and search cars, sometimes even knocking off the hubcaps. They demand to see identity cards, and woe to that person who has forgotten to carry his with him. After being harassed once, I make certain I have my ID at hand before I even get dressed in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Hassle People at Whim | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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