Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's 2,250 whites had been airlifted to safety in Belgium as legionnaires liberated the city. A dozen staff members of the huge Gécamines copper complex returned to hold their regular monthly payday for 13,000 African employees, though not much work was being done. At the main cobalt plant in Kolwezi, only two senior white managers were left. Said Director Jean van Pottelsberghe: "Two are enough for a couple of months. But for a year...
...Angola, much to Luanda's annoyance. Understandably alarmed by the growth of this potentially unruly force in a civil war-torn country, Neto's government closed down the F.N.L.C. office in Luanda last January. Apparently with some reluctance, it also allowed some of its Cuban advisers to visit the main Katangese camp at Chicapa in northeastern Angola, prior to the incursion, to provide last-minute tactical advice...
...that formerly carried Zaïrian and Zambian ore to the seaport at Lobito. The sabotage has deprived Angola's government of $100 million a year in rail revenues. UNITA'S guerrilla attacks have also disrupted diamond mining, as well as farming in the Huambo district, which is Angola's main granary. The country's only sizable revenue (about $700 million last year) comes from oil rigs in Cabinda that are operated under Cuban protection by the Gulf Oil Corp...
...main drawback with the certificates is that they are themselves inflationary. Explains M. Todd Cooke, president of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the nation's largest mutual savings bank: "Money is our raw material. If we have to pay depositors more to get it from depositors, then the cost of one of our products?mortgage loans?is also going to have...
...main argument against Steiger is ideological: cutting levies so much for the rich would strike a blow at the whole principle of progressive taxation. The Treasury figures that the Steiger amendment would reduce taxes an average of $14,000 for people with incomes of $200,000 a year or more?and exactly 26¢ for people who earn from $15,000 to $20,000 and rarely get a chance for large capital gains...