Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destiny is no longer controlled by the rival superpowers -- and that unification is imminent. Last week in Bonn, representatives of West and East Germany and the four World War II Allies -- the U.S., Britain, France and the Soviet Union -- sat down in the Foreign Ministry on the Rhine to begin the complicated business of consolidating, and securing, a single German state...
...Dallas-based company began to hire 700 drivers as permanent replacements for strikers. Within seven days Greyhound reported that ridership on its buses was back to 38% of normal levels and rising. As the company trained additional nonunion substitutes, dispirited drivers and other striking workers watched their jobs begin to evaporate. Every day they walked the picket line, it seemed, fewer would have posts to return to. By the time Greyhound and its unions resumed talks last Saturday, management was holding most of the aces. With more than 1,000 new drivers on the job, and 1,000 more...
...back to these pictures. When people put in all this work, they improve, and sometimes the difference between what they begin with and what they end up with is startling--so much better that they might not be aware that it still isn't any good (I'm not refering to Damn Yankees...
...Treating homeless people with the basic dignity that all humans deserve" means granting basic rights of food and shelter. Our insensitivity to the homeless population does not begin and end in averting our eyes, but in allowing people to become destitute. Smith's attitude is typcial of those who not only accept homelessness, but take it for granted...
...spreading unrest has clouded prospects for talks between Pretoria and the antiapartheid African National Congress. Before formal negotiations begin, the A.N.C. wants President F.W. de Klerk to lift the state of emergency imposed in 1986. De Klerk said last week that he would not do so while "anarchy" prevailed...