Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Europeans keep asking us to multiply assurances that we cannot possibly mean; and that if we mean them, we should not want to execute; and that if we execute, we'll destroy civilization. That is our strategic dilemma, into which we have built ourselves by our own theory and by the encouragement of our allies...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher could lift the 13-year-old economic sanctions against Britain's breakaway colony when they expire in November. On the eve of his departure for the peace talks, Muzorewa (along with former Prime Minister Ian Smith) gave an unmistakable sign that he intends to keep up the fight to retain his power: he launched the biggest cross-border strike of the war, a devastating "preemptive" assault on guerrilla bases in neighboring Mozambique...
Some of the gold goes to the bank's own account, but most is for its clients. The Dresdner is rumored to be active as an agent for Middle Eastern investors, though much of the demand is from West German money managers. Schreiber advises them to keep one-quarter to one-third of their investments in gold...
...always looks like we are going after the baby-sitters to make them pay taxes." However, the IRS is trying to figure out ways of subjecting tips received by waiters and waitresses to withholding (they are supposed to be voluntarily reported). A more jarring proposal would require businesses to keep back 10% of the money owed on contracts and send it to the Government as taxes on the outsiders' income...
...Turbay Ayala sees "no possibility" of legalization. His feeling is shared by Attorney General Guillermo Gonzalez Charry, who is worried about marijuana's effect on the health of Colombian youth. By A.N.I.F.'S estimate, only 5% of the crop is smoked locally, and Gonzalez wishes to keep it that way. Captain Luis German Leon, head of the secret police narcotics unit, fears that if pot were legalized many people now involved in the marijuana trade "would switch to kidnaping or trafficking in arms...