Word: assistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote for the anti-apartheid opposition, the National Party changed the constitution to remove them from the voters' rolls. In 1964 the Colored Persons' Representative Council was established; it has no parliamentary powers but is answerable to a white Cabinet minister. Its chief function is to assist in administering housing, health and social welfare policies for coloreds...
...Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. "I did it," he insists, "because Richard Burton was sulking and couldn't say his lines. That was my first and last taste of show...
York proved her point well, as she poured in a hat trick-plus-one from the left wing and added an assist to offensive dynamo Sarah Mleczko to bring the game action over to the left side...
Teammate Stone also joined in on the assault with two goals and an assist to York from her left inside spot...
...brief, which was being revised right down to the wire: "We doubt that it is ever proper to use race to close any portion of the class for competition by members of all races. It is one thing to give a minority applicant the sort of consideration that will assist him in competing fairly against other applicants; it is quite another to set aside a number of slots for which interracial competition is precluded...