Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Back in Tanganyika, he was increasingly drawn into the campaign for independence. Characteristically, however, as he traveled the vast colony by Land Rover to proselytize for TANU (Tanganyika Africa Nationalist Union), he had a gentleman's agreement with the police who tailed him everywhere: they stopped to help fix each other's flat tires...
Brazil is the only purely capitalistic country in the world. The wealthiest five percent of the population can shoot striking workers at will, fix prices, monopolize, cartelize and avoid paying taxes, reported an exiled Brazilian congressman...
...seven children she bore, one died at the age of 16, another is mentally retarded and institutionalized. Active in church and school work, she believes that "women need something besides kids. There's nothing more boring than women who talk about their babies, diapers and what they fix for dinner. If I couldn't get away, I know I'd end up in the nut house." Though she is against abortion ("It's murder") and worries that some mothers use day-care centers as a substitute for child rearing, she is in sympathy with most...
...their old car while he took over the new one, she suggested that he sign a contract to mollify her. In the contract, he promised to make the bed every morning, pick up his clothes, take out the garbage every other day, write a bimonthly letter to his family, fix breakfast every weekend, devote one weekend a month exclusively to his wife, fetch calorie-laden treats for her without teasing, clean up his own kitchen messes and empty the dishwasher, plan and cook one "nice" dinner a month-and let Jo-Ann choose the next new car. Bob signed...
...base steadily eroded by a flight of relatively well-off whites and an influx of low-income blacks, who now constitute 70% of its 68,000 population. The city is desperately short of policemen, firemen, sanitation workers, teachers and public housing. "We are even begging for paint to fix up our high school," says Mayor James E. Williams. In order to pay its bills, the city began selling as many bonds as Illinois law permits. When that proved insufficient, it resorted to an annual charade. The city would borrow from banks to meet its payroll, then, by prearrangement, would fail...