Government tells hospitals to tighten up cleaning contracts

Arenavirus deaths--emergency air services tighten up.

According to the Chief Director for Communicable Diseases, Dr Frew Benson, the local air emergency services huddle was to be followed up ‘very soon’ by another with their SADC air emergency counterparts, ‘to identify gaps’. Speaking exclusively to Izindaba, Dr Benson said the two main weaknesses identified at the first meeting were the need for prior consultation by air evacuation services with...

government contracts

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Tax Contracts and Government Formation

We examine how tax contracts affect government formation and welfare of voters in a parliamentary democracy. A tax contract specifies a range of tax rates a party is committed to if in government. We develop a new model of party competition and show that the introduction of tax contracts has two effects: a perks-reduction effect and a policy-shift effect. The former is dominant in societies wit...

Cleaning up after yourself

Performing cleanup actions such as restoring a variable or closing a file used to be impossible to guarantee in Forth before Forth-94 gave us catch. Even with catch, the cleanup code can be skipped due to user interrupts if you are unlucky. We introduce a construct that guarantees that the cleanup code is always completed. We also discuss a cheaper implementation approach for cleanup code than ...

"Shore up the core," CMA tells Ottawa.