Word: behind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing but contempt for Muzorewa, whom they regard as inept, indecisive and thin-skinned. Scorning him as "Queen Abel," a mere figurehead, they believe he will be unable either to end the war or gain real power from the country's 212,000 whites, who retain a strong behind-scenes voice in the government and have had outright control over the army, police, civil service and judiciary for ten years. Says one ZANU official in Mozambique: "At least the leader of a so-called independent Bantustan in South Africa can fire his own police chief." The advantage...
...total election-year tax cut is expected to be $15 billion or more, and it is traditionally split two-thirds for individuals, one-third for business. Conable, Jones and other congressional leaders have been telling business people to rally behind a single proposal to avoid a repetition of last year's squabble, when big companies preferred a corporate tax cut rather than a reduction in capital gains taxes. The plan for faster depreciation has quickly won the backing of business lobbyists, who get together for breakfast every two weeks at Washington's sedate Sheraton-Carlton...
When Ellerbee himself is gunned down behind the counter, he goes to Hell, where he joins armies of sinners double-timing through fire and filth...
Astonishingly, Boston's was the first professional production of a Tippett op era in this country. (Northwestern Uni versity staged The Knot Garden in 1974.) Although U.S. orchestras are increasingly taking up his instrumental works, his acceptance here lags behind even his late blooming in England. Tippett says he al ways knew it would take him a lifetime to come to artistic fruition. And, he adds, -T was always arrogant enough to know I'd get there in the end." The Ice Break emphatically confirms that...
...lock. A blood sample from a patient is added to a tube containing animal brain tissue and a radioactively tagged chemical known to bind to particular receptors. Whatever drug is in the patient's blood displaces the test chemical at these sites, and the radioactive tracer left behind can easily be measured, giving doctors a precise indication of the levels of the prescribed drug in the blood-and thus a firm indication of how the body is utilizing...