Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sins like "neglect of duty to sensitize the population to the great national tasks." Social Communications Minister Jorge Correia Jesuino, a Gonçalves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily Diário de Notícias have denounced the paper's Communist line, and 17 newsmen of the state television system have demanded the resignation of Correia Jesuino...
...staring at him. Father, a normally resolute person, suddenly floundered in his soul. A weird despair seized him. The wind came up, the sky had turned overcast, and the great ocean began to tumble and break upon itself as if made of slabs of granite and sliding terraces of slate. He watched the ship till he could see it no longer. Yet aboard her were only more customers, for the immigrant population set great store by the American flag...
When a client can pay, Slate recommends a so-called Chapter 13 bankruptcy, under which debts are worked off on an agreed-upon repayment schedule. But when the customer is really flat broke, Slate recommends a straight bankruptcy, which is less painful than it sounds...
...most liberal; it allows debtors to keep up to $20,000 equity in a house, $500 in a car, most household goods, tools of trade, $1,000 in a savings and loan association account and $1,500 in a credit union account. Moreover, under a ruling won by Slate a decade ago, Californians may convert any funds or assets into exempt categories before filing a bankruptcy petition...
...Slate takes pride in never refusing a client, and most of them leave his offices satisfied. Computer Designer Jerry Kiliszweski, for example, faced a $3,000 judgment for a faulty set of cabinets he had built, plus a host of unexpected medical expenses; creditors had garnisheed a quarter of his wages and attached his savings account, car and aged pickup truck. Within 24 hours after Kiliszweski saw Slate, the garnishment and attachments were ended. Recalls his wife Pat: "When I said I don't understand the judicial system very well, Mr. Slate just said, 'Well, honey, everyone...