Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raises were given by Carter because other Federal Government workers and military personnel were eligible for increases under the Federal Pay Comparability Act. The measure was intended to make the wages for Government work roughly equivalent to that for similar jobs in industry. In fact, except for Cabinet-level and sub-Cabinet officers, the Government now often pays much more than private business...
...they have the look of mutants, as young cicadas do when molting their husks. The most extreme case is Balthus' Guitar Lesson, 1934-one of the few masterpieces among erotic paintings made by Western artists in the past 50 years. But the suggestive mood pervades all his work except the landscapes. To encounter it in the mellowed and reduced form of Katia Reading, 1970-76, is still faintly disturbing-as if one of the figures in Seurat's Grande Jatte had turned from its Euclidean stillness and made a gesture of invitation. In terms of formal arrangement...
...Asians to be shoehorned into the Afrikaner political system. A primary reason for Vorster's calling the election is to gain a popular consensus for a proposed new constitution, one that would abolish the present parliamentary system, based on the Westminster model. Instead, each racial group in the country except blacks?whites, coloreds and Asians?would have a separate communal "parliament." These bodies would in turn nominate representatives to a Council of Cabinets, which would choose an all-powerful President (presumably Vorster). The council would have eleven members?six whites, three coloreds and two Asians...
Nobody, really-except the man in the Oval Office...
...which has already produced more than 10,000 exhibits, is a key part of the continuing legal fallout from the operations of the now notorious world uranium cartel. The cartel included companies from Canada, Australia, Britain, France and South Africa, as well as the governments of all those countries except Britain. Gulf Oil, the only known American participant, was represented through a Canadian subsidiary. The cartel existed only from 1972 to 1975, but it cashed in on a bonanza that would make an OPEC oil minister jealous: during those three years, world "yellowcake" prices zoomed from less than...