Word: containing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swardt said that blacks will no longer have to carry passes. But these passes are merely being replaced by "passports" issued by Bantustan administrations. They will continue to serve the same function: to prevent blacks from living permanently or with their families in the "white" areas, which contain 87 per cent of South Africa's territory and all important towns, resources and agriculture. Most blacks must work there, but they are often forced to leave their spouses and children behind in the Bantustans...
...group which has a disincentive for cost cutting. Instead of being rewarded for making wise decisions that cut costs, administrators receive less revenue the following year and, as a result, face a loss in staff and, eventually, patients. Local regulatory boards also have a disincentive to close down or contain costs in local hospitals because these costs are almost always being covered by money outside the region of the hospital. Closing these hospitals would only serve to create unemployment in the local communities...
...traditional opposition are engaging in conversations that could pave the way for more "liberal" government that would be respective of private property and U.S. interests in Nicaragua. Alternatively, a military coup with some form of U.S. backing is possible should Somoza refuse to step down or fail to contain the political situation...
...individuals. Last week, putting on the record what was already known, he told a Senate committee that the "first priority" of Carter's tax bill will be to lower rates, and that the measure will be kept "relatively simple to build confidence." That apparently means it will contain little reform; as Blumenthal well knows, the President's intention to propose such tough reforms as taxing capital gains at ordinary-income rates has been a prime reason for business anxiety...
...novelist-playwright like Beckett, whose subject matter deals with lack of communication and absurdity, turns to poetry, his already intense style will seem exaggerated. We are not surprised when we find that Beckett has written only a handful of poems because we know the intensity of feeling each must contain when only one, sometimes two, are produced in a year. In the same way we should not be surprised by Beckett's somewhat exaggerated poetic style...