Word: government
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less working." The regulations tightly limit the way in which banks can do business-for instance, by setting a 5% ceiling on the savings-account interest that they can pay and prohibiting them from refusing loans because of a prospective borrower's race, color or sex. Other provisions govern bankers' personal business affairs. An example: they must share details of large debts with their banks' directors...
Touching as it does matters of love and money, health and deep feminist feeling, the question of midwifery has stirred strong argument, with more to come: an incredible patchwork of wildly inconsistent state laws now govern, ignore or tacitly condone various kinds of midwifery. Setting adequate licensing and training standards, therefore, will not be easy...
...some (notably that old stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern its secretion of acid is painful and expensive. Often it does not work either...
Scares has long held that elaborate consultations with the opposition on pending legislation could be interpreted as a "privileged relationship" that might erode his ability to govern. But when it became obvious that the Socialists did not have the votes to push through a crucial agrarian reform bill designed to reduce Communist control in the agricultural Alentejo, he had to compromise. While the C.D.S. refused to support the Socialist approach, the P.S.D. was swayed by Scares' offer to include some property-protection guarantees that it advocated and, more important, by a promise to hold "working group discussions" with...
Giaimo now talks about creating specific guidelines to govern the way the CBO releases its reports-meaning a muzzle for its chief...