Word: deem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against law suits, not to compensate the accident victim. Legally, this is still so. But public expectations have shifted toward protecting the injured." Though the alliance carefully calls its plan" Guaranteed Benefits," the guarantee does not cover property damage; it applies only to injured persons whom the insurers deem to have a valid liability claim because they were not at fault in the accident...
...sterling on foreign exchange markets. Obliged to buy up pounds to keep the currency from dropping too far below its $2.40 official price, Britain has seen its reserves of gold and foreign currencies shrink to $2.7 billion, less than half the amount that would be necessary to re deem all the pounds held by individuals and central banks in sterling-area countries...
...wanton cruelty-but he elects to omit details that would have colored it differently. For example, he has admitted to knowing that Propagandist Le Khanh Trung, one of the highest-ranking Viet Cong ever to fall into American hands, was found in Ben Sue; but he does not deem it worth mentioning in his book. Nor does he tell how Ben Sue's farmers were given new land and homes elsewhere, nor that the village was destroyed as part of an operation to deny the Viet Cong use of a jungle sanctuary where 720 guerrillas were killed, thousands...
...persistence of the Arab attitude is perhaps the strongest argument for Israel's need to protect itself. Since the U.N. has shown its inability to protect them, Israelis argue that they can give up the real estate they deem essential to their security only if the Arabs agree to peace-and to reality, transported to Suez and released, to go home. Some also got food and water from the desert's Bedouins-if they were willing to pay their fellow Arabs...
...more significant would be the institution of a series of low-keyed discussions between the House staff--Masters, tutors, and House associates--and the students. Open dialogues such as these would preserve the calm, reasonable atmosphere the Deans and Masters deem necessary to achieve any changes in the present parietal system...