Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the principle of rule-or-ruin has failed, the only option left to the shortsighted ex-rulers is to scream and call the oil exporting countries names more becoming of themselves for their predatory exploitation of the same countries during the past century...
...Boat People and the Past...
When she first came to HUD in 1977 Harris was widely criticized as inexperienced in housing matters, but she shook up the department, which had been demoralized by past scandals, and gave it a solid sense of purpose. Declared one veteran official: "For the first time, I think we have a sense of mission and movement." Within the agency, she stressed affirmative action in promoting women, blacks and hispanics. Of Harris' appointees half are women, 21% are black and 7% are hispanics. Comptroller General Elmer Staab praised HUD, under Harris, for becoming "a forerunner in dealing with program fraud...
...Landlords will then be able to notify tenants of a new rent," Stanton said. Most tenants will be paying 9.5 per cent more rent. If special rent increases have been granted to a landlord in the past, the increase may be less, he added...
Jane Goldberg has been running a one-woman campaign for the past five years to revive Collins' art. She thinks it is important to preserve this distictly American art which, she says, blends Irish clog dance with African folk dance, because most of the original artists are in their sixties and will not be able to teach their craft indefinitely...