Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shaky deal seemed to be shaping up on Capitol Hill last week for a less inflationary $15 billion reduction. Even so, the projected federal deficit would still be $53 billion, give or take a few billion, and the President declared last week: "Someone has got to hold the line on the budget, and I am determined to do so." To show that he means business, he is talking of a fiscal 1980 budget that would trim the deficit further, to $37.5 billion, and would include virtually no new spending...
...making and yoga classes, pinball and poolrooms will be increased so that the users will pay the freight. "Dancercise" courses that used to cost $10, for example, will now cost $25. The meeting room in the Spanish-style community center will no longer be offered gratis. Senior citizens who hold weekly gatherings there are angry that they will have to rent the room for up to $200 a meeting. Complains a frequent user, Climene Gerfen: "Our money went into this building. They say it's government money, but that's our money, isn't it?" Says Ovrom...
Nobody is insisting on the immediate replacement of Mobutu, if only because it is unclear whether anybody else could hold the country together. But this time, in return for saving him once again, the Western powers are determined to insist on a strict price in terms of social and economic reform. Among the proposed demands: a completely rebuilt army, a remodeled central bank, better food distribution, and guarantees that there will be no government reprisals against the civilian population of Shaba, which has never liked Mobutu and made little secret of its sympathy for the invading rebels...
...meant economically to the region. Foreign economists conclude that both sides benefit, though Israel comes out ahead. The West Bank buys 91% of its imports from Israel, while it sells only 65% of its exports in return. Nearly half of the West Bank's 90,000 workers hold jobs in Israel, but they are often in areas that Israelis shun such as garbage collection, day labor and construction. Moreover, they receive, on the average, 81% of the wages Israelis get for the same work...
...been the natural order of things; this is certainly bad. They have learned that the Arabs are at the lower end of the ladder, which creates a vision of each other that is not conducive to coexistence. I'm not worried about whether or not we can hold on to the territories. But the price we pay worries me. Here we are, a democratic society, holding another society hostage." Uri Avneri, editor of the Tel Aviv weekly magazine Ha 'olam Hazeh, is even more outspoken. "The occupation is an unmitigated disaster for Israel. The fact that the Palestinians...