Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would pay for water and electricity in the house, which I'll only be using on weekends. He said he didn't see why not. But today he was told he needed authorization from the Ministry. He offered to go to Abidjan first thing tomorrow morning to see the proper people. Unfortunately that didn't solve the problem of my taking a shower tonight...
...vote is needed for election. Men who have enough "number one" votes are automatically declared elected; their surplus ballots are then redistributed and the ballots of those with the fewest "number one" votes are also redistributed to those second on the list. The process continues until the proper number of office holders receive the quota...
...moved medical, nursing and welfare personnel out into the countryside so that the poorest sugar-cane workers' children would get the same medical and dental examinations as city youngsters. Now there are clinics for pregnant women and for well babies-along with proper care for the sick. Where TB patients once languished for lack of treatment in a sanatorium, health workers now give out supplies of isoniazid to be taken at home, and then they check to make sure the pills are really taken...
...nearest thing to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball is a well-bred, cultured Southern white woman, or her blue-eyed, golden-haired little girl." By contrast, he added: "The social, political, economic and religious preferences of the Negro remain close to the caterpillar and the cockroach . . . proper food for a chimpanzee...
...function before endorsing it, and some will probably decline to participate. Dozens of companies, however, are busy competing for the Government's one-year renewable contracts to handle medicare, the first of which will be granted early next year. The contracts provide for fees to cover "necessary and proper" administrative costs, but there will be no big profits involved. Why, then, are the insurance companies so anxious to help the once-despised program? Some reasons...