Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost everyone agrees that Petrobras' operations are hampered by ill-trained and featherbedding workers. Last year Petrobras held up construction on an ammonia plant in Bahia, yet kept on most of the 400 workers hired for the plant, transferring them to other jobs. Companies doing business with Petrobras also complain that its personnel solicit bribes and kickbacks. On several deals, according to insiders, Petrobras has imported crude oil at prices well above the market and exported refined products at a loss. Moreover, Communist-leaning agitators dominate Petrobras' powerful refining and pro duction unions-which, in turn, suggest their...
General Staff headquarters. In jail, Can fell ill from acute diabetes. Hauled from the hospital last week, he underwent a preliminary hearing preparatory to trial for so-called crimes against the state...
Under the modern conception of governmental responsibilities, the court continued, care of the mentally ill has come to be regarded as one of the "public welfare programs to which all citizens are contributing through presumptively duly apportioned taxes...
...stunned state officials, the decision raised the troubling prospect that persons now maintaining mentally ill relatives in private hospitals or at home may try to have them committed to already overburdened state institutions. "This decision," complained California's Deputy Attorney General John C. Porter, "means they won't have to pay. It is a complete reversal of what we thought...
...visible story is slow and simple. A lesbian named Ester, her younger sister Anna, and Anna's young son Johan are passing by train through a country whose inhabitants speak a foreign tongue, devised by Bergman to subvert communication. When Ester falls ill, they stop at a hotel. An incestuous relationship between the women has ended in bitterness, and Anna-after a few days of taunting her sister with a series of heterosexual escapades-takes the boy and goes away, leaving her to die alone...