Word: interalli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then he started to look at her tubes. He said, 'We should take her tubes; they don't look good.' I couldn't see anything wrong with them, so I said that we shouldn't do a tubal ligation until we got a second opinion. But this inter-surgeon kept insisting that her tubes be tied right then. Not knowing what to do, I got really angry and made them call the head GYN. A message came back to close her up. If I hadn't gotten angry, who knows what would have happened. The woman was only 23 years...
...consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, Peter Shiras, describes the real state of the "reform": the first phase, the expropriation of the largest estates, was in large measure subverted by landlords; the second phase, which dealt with medium-size estates, indefinitely postponed; and the third, "land to the tiller" phase hopelessly mired in a bureaucratic maze. The right wing will not allow significant reforms, and, Shiras reports, government troops often interfere. He quotes one government official as saying: "The troops came and told the workers the land was theirs now. They could elect their own leaders...
Interest rates continued their three-month-long slide last week, as many American banks dropped the bench mark prime inter est rate to 15½%. In September the rate stood at 20%. The moneymen were again following the pattern set by Southwest Bank of St. Louis, which ranks only 1,270th in size among the some 14,000 banks in the U.S. but is a leader in setting the prune. Two weeks ago, Southwest was the first bank to lower its rate to the new level...
Dukakis, director of Inter-Governmental Relations at the Kennedy School of Government, has not yet officially announced his candidacy for the 1982 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, although "the campaign is under way and has been for several months," he said. His talk was sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Club, which has not yet endorsed a candidate, Christina Spaulding, the club's vice president, said last night...
...Dutch Inter-Church Peace Council's early advocacy of unilateral disarmament made it a tempting target for the Dutch Communist Party, which tried covertly to infiltrate local chapters. But in 1978, after delegates from Moscow were dispatched to lead a youth march in Amsterdam against the neutron bomb, the Council rebelled. Since then, the church-sponsored group has deliberately held itself aloof from the Communists, although some cooperation does still exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament...