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...headed the union from 1946 until his death in 1970, it was able to win concessions from the automakers, bringing its members into the middle class. As long as demand for autos grew in the post-WW II halcyon days, relations between the unions and the automakers were basically quiescent...
Even more reassuring was the fact that most patients who were getting ill in the spring had only mild to moderate symptoms. After a relatively quiescent period over the summer, we began to see a steady stream of cases of H1N1 beginning at the end of August...
...Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says there is no link between the sodomy investigation and Anwar's political comeback. But there's no question Abdullah's government is increasingly under fire. In recent weeks, cuts in fuel subsidies have sent usually quiescent Malaysians to the streets in protest. More citizens are criticizing the government's race-based affirmative-action system, which gives Malays privileges in everything from university places to government contracts. (Anwar has promised to reform the system should he come to power.) The ruling alliance has lost its usual cohesion. At one point in mid-June...
...Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Sunday denied any link between the sodomy charge and Anwar's political comeback. But there's no question Abdullah's government is increasingly under fire. In recent weeks, cuts in fuel subsidies have sent usually quiescent Malaysians to the streets in protest and more citizens are criticizing the government's race-based affirmative-action system, which gives Malays privileges in everything from university places to government contracts. The ruling coalition has lost its usual cohesion. The Sabah Progressive Party, a tiny member of the coalition, called in mid-June for a parliamentary...
...only because he rarely spoke with forked tongue). The movie plays him as a complaisant cuckold, allowing his wife her affair and the money to subsidize her lover's needs. Mannix seems to have loved her in his fashion, and so long as Reeves treated her well, he remained quiescent. It is only after their affair ended and she became miserable, that Mannix's wrath was aroused and it becomes possible to imagine him dispatching hit men to avenge...