Word: deemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse still, the government has ruled out most of the measures that might help reduce inflation. Israeli leaders deem it out of the question politically to cut defense expenditures, which swallowed 42% of the $12 billion budget in 1976. Welfare payments ($2.2 billion last year) are another political untouchable. The Histadrut, Israel's all-powerful labor federation, is dead set against wage controls; workers strike like clockwork to protest high prices, and nearly always win raises from management. Last week in the Knesset (parliament), the right-wing opposition party, Likud, pushed into committee four bills requiring arbitration in labor...
...Kruger guided through Parliament an omnibus security bill, known as the Internal Security Act, that provides for the indefinite detention without trial of any person whom the police deem to be a security risk. As his police continued a nationwide crackdown on black militants last week, Kruger confirmed that 77 people were being detained under the Internal Security Act; some sources say that the number is at least twice as high. The minister added that 744 others, most of them black, had been arrested on such charges as rioting, arson and "causing a disturbance...
...ebony and gold altar. Their vows were identical to those exchanged by all Swedes marrying in the state Lutheran Church. Flanking the altar upon cushioned taborets were two gold, jewel-encrusted crowns, which they will never put upon their royal heads. Reason: Carl Gustaf's countrymen would deem that unsuitably undemocratic...
...Hartman's charges but the failure of several GSD faculty members to cooperate fully with the Hartman Review Committee. While the review panel reserved its strongest criticism for the uncooperative and called on the GSD faculty to take "due note of this fact and take such action as they deem appropriate," the members of the Academic Policy Committee--who are colleagues of the criticized faculty members--concluded that they could not recommend that the GSD even consider censure "in the absence of known standards and accepted procedures in this area." This flatly contradicts the report of the first committee, which...
...committee takes a very serious view of the failure of members, and former members, of the Faculty of Design to cooperate with a committee established by that Faculty, and hopes that the members of that Faculty will take due note of this fact, and take such action as they deem appropriate...