Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...rationale behind the Corporation's policy is that some companies are doing more good than harm in their South Africa-related businesses. Although some companies do have programs to help Black South Africans, the ultimate result of their business is to help sustain the apartheid regime. No matter how progressive a company may be, it cannot end apartheid...
These stories are not as somber as their subject matter suggests. Kirn, who . grew up in Minnesota before heading east to Princeton and then a career in journalism, never condescends to his beleaguered characters. He allows them the dignity of feeling responsible for their mistakes and the virtue of hoping, against the evidence of their experience, that things will get better...
...matter how he does in this race, his growing acceptability opens up many opportunities for him in 1991, when he can pick his target in a state where the open primary seems made for this kind of permanent campaigning. He can run for Governor, state senator, or the U.S. House. He has struck a vein of rich ore, and others are circling closer to share in mining...
...amazed, but I patiently tried to explain the matter to him. "Don't you see, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, that if we form a military organization with some socialist countries but not the G.D.R. and Albania, we'll be sending a signal to our Western foes. We'll be telling them, to put it crudely, 'You are allowed to eat up Albania and the G.D.R.' We'd just be building up the appetite of the Western revanchists...
...That would be very stupid," I told him. "I know that if you think about it, you'll see the necessity for our decision." Fortunately, he calmed down. We sent in our troops. Budapest put up quite a bit of resistance, but it was all over in a matter of days...