Word: pullback
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Ling says, many of his company's nine subsidiaries were hurt by un foreseen events. The economic slow down cut Braniff's passenger traffic, a rise in copper prices hurt Okonite's prof its and the pullback in defense contracts reduced the earnings of both LTV Electrosystems and LTV Ling Altec...
...emerging among blacks. This is not the kind of majority that throws rocks or Molotov cocktails. Nor does it march or sing We Shall Overcome." This new black majority is aroused and vengeful, hardened by events- the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., police raids on the Panthers, the pullback on integration. "All this has created new tensions, new fears in the black community," Hathaway says. "It seems to have drawn people closer together. Tragically, as that happens, black America pulls away from white America. There is a feeling that only black Americans can save black America. White America seems...
With the present separatist mood of blacks on campus, reflected in the political split with such organizations as SDS as well as the pullback from news outlets, neither whites nor blacks hold out hope for an aggressive recruitment campaign among blacks...