Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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By last week the protesters were off the streets. For one thing, Khomeini had backed down, saying that he had merely been suggesting modest dress. Also, the women were reluctant to endanger the already hard-pressed government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan, who has been receptive to their complaints.
To be a woman in Iran is to be better off than a woman in most other Middle Eastern countries. But Iran is still a deeply patriarchal society, in which a woman is seen as needing protection and separation from predatory males, her greatest purpose in life to provide her...
The fire station quickly ran up a white flag of surrender-actually, a shirt borrowed off the back of a friendly passerby. During the ten-hour uprising, the island's radio station, which had been seized by revolutionaries, broadcast calypso and reggae songs. After the coup, the music was...
> Inflation has heightened the risks of investment and led to extreme uncertainty, so that business decision makers have no confidence that an investment today of $1-or $1 billion-will pay off in the future. In a highly inflationary economy, managers have no sound means of estimating the real cost...
What needs to be done is to reverse these trends so that the nation spends relatively less personal income for today in order to save more for tomorrow; reduces the amount of money drained off by Government activities and increases the capital available for private investment; and decreases the sums...