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Even in the most advanced areas, Moslem woman's emancipation is not yet complete. Moslem husbands are still reluctant to send their wives to male doctors, and Moslem women are reluctant to go. Though girls have increasing voice in their choice of husbands, most defer to their father's wishes. Even the most progressive Moslem men seldom invite even close friends to meet their wives, particularly non-Moslem friends. At the American University of Beirut and Beirut College for Women, modern young Moslem girl students wear blue jeans, go water skiing, do the rock 'n' roll...
...workers. Lockheed is also cutting back. So are the Martin Co., North American and other major contractors. The picture is even darker for the thousands of subcontractors who sometimes do as much as 60% of the actual work on each plane. As prime contractors are forced in turn to defer payments or withdraw subcontracts, the Strategic Industries Association estimates that 500 subcontractors in Southern California alone will go under before year...
...rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue and the wit defer to the foot and the blade...
Plus Equals Minus. Capital was in such trouble, said President J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael, that it will have to "defer" a $60 million order for 14 British-built Comet jetliners and 15 Viscount turboprops that it hoped to add to its fleet. Some of the planes were already coming off the production line, freshly painted with Capital markings; now they will go to other lines until Capital's finances are in better shape. While Capital had increased its operating revenues by 62% to $19.2 million for the quarter, said Carmichael, rising costs, coupled with bad winter flying weather, which...
...liar and fraud. After two hours of argument, the two men hurried over to 10 Downing Street where Prime Minister Macmillan, just hours before his departure for Bermuda, had hastily assembled a few top ministers. Without stopping for lunch, the conferees battled on until midafternoon, were finally forced to defer the government's scheduled statement by 24 hours...