Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
...high (9.7% in Japan, 14.7% in Britain), the big worry among economists and politicians now is the possibility of a new global recession. Says C. Fred Bergsten, one of President-elect Jimmy Carter's experts on international economics: "The chances of aborting the world recovery are fairly high unless we get some thoughtful policies here and abroad...
...curbs to protect workers' jobs, and in the U.S. business groups are lobbying for limits on imports of shoes and color TVs. Over lunch last week in Brussels, angry officials of the European Community bluntly warned Japanese representatives that they would close the door to some Japanese goods unless the country moves swiftly to reduce its mammoth $4.2 billion annual surplus in trade with Europe. Discontent over inflation and unemployment is shaking governments in Britain and Italy, fomenting rising left-wing sentiment in France, and rekindling separatist dreams in Canada...
...creation of a single, streamlined federal agency to handle all energy matters, even though that would wipe out his own job. Since President-elect Carter has proposed the same thing, there is a good chance that the FPC will indeed disappear one of these days, unloved and unlamented. But unless Congress also resolves the question of whether to choose low prices or plentiful supplies, an energy superagency would only be handed the FPC'S task of reconciling the irreconcilable...
However, students should realize that as the situation now stands, unless they actually take the necessary steps to obtain a refund, they are by forfeit financially and morally supporting voluntary abortion through the fee they have already paid for their Student Health Care Plan...