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Garamendi, Farmers swap ratings gripes. (California Department of Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and Farmers Insurance Group dispute customer grievance statistics)
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Garamendi, Farmers swap ratings gripes
Farmers Insurance Group charged last week that the Department of Insurance manipulated customer grievance statistics in order to single it out for criticism in a survey of complaints against California insurers.
"I think they are making an example of one of the large companies," said Jerry Clemans, a spokesman for Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance, the largest property/casualty insurer in the state. "I think what's being done is that if you can show what a large company is supposed to be doing, the other (smaller) ...
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Afrikaans struggles to shake off the taint of apartheid
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...journalist at Radio Pretoria, a private Afrikaans station which still flies the old South...pour out Nationalist propaganda in Afrikaans, is now slowly strangling his mother tongue, he says. When Afrikaans-speakers dominated South Africa...
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Afrikaans as voertaal en wetenskapstaal aan Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite.('n Vaste plek vir Afrikaans: taaluitdagings op kampus)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
; ...Schlemmer, L. 2006. 'n Vaste plek vir Afrikaans: taaluitdagings op kampus. Stellenbosch...in die hand te werk nie. Die lot van Afrikaans aan histories Afrikaanse universiteite...grootliks oorheers. 'n Vaste plek vir Afrikaans: taaluitdagings op kampus verskyn in...
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Afrikaans-only paper raises ire; Policy criticised at Stellenbosch.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa)
; ...Until late yesterday afternoon only an Afrikaans version of the draft document, released...that the document was released first in Afrikaans. She said the institution's lack of...dissenting voices who don't read academic Afrikaans . She added that many of those waiting...
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 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
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Afrikaans ads are plesierig; Fresh campaigns 'some of the best in 14 years'.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Saturday Star (South Africa)
; ...enough reason to celebrate when the best Afrikaans advertising recently strutted its stuff...creative excellence has blown through the Afrikaans advertising landscape, Jacobs enthused...environment increasingly dominated by English, Afrikaans-speaking creatives not only have to...
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 "Pretoria News (South Africa)")
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FW takes up cudgels for Afrikaans.(News)
Newspaper article from: Pretoria News (South Africa)
; BYLINE: Cornelia du Plooy Afrikaans is a language of liberation, not...Klerk, who spoke about the role of Afrikaans in a multi-cultural South Africa...summit of the Nasionale Forum vir Afrikaans. The real question is: where should...
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Displacement in the literary texts of black Afrikaans writers in South Africa.
Magazine article from: Journal of Literary Studies
; ...displacements in literary texts by black Afrikaans writers. These representations can be...On the one hand the relatively young Afrikaans literature tells of the way in which...and mythologising; on the other hand Afrikaans literature also represents the various...
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School tries to keep Afrikaans-only status.(FEATURES)(LEARNING)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...straightforward reason for forcing the Afrikaans-language Mikro Primary School to enroll...for them elsewhere. But to the white, Afrikaans-speaking parents and officials at Mikro...11 national languages - in this case, Afrikaans - can be forced to accommodate speakers...
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Arabic-Afrikaans literature at the Cape.
Magazine article from: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
; Arabic-Afrikaans Literature at the Cape Tuan Guru...literature which came to be known as Arabic-Afrikaans, comments on manuscripts that were...the daunting challenge of transcribing Afrikaans phonetically in the Arabic script...
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The ABCs of post-apartheid South Africa: 25 years ago, forced use of Afrikaans in black township schools sparked unrest. Now the language struggles.(World)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...the National Party ruled, new private Afrikaans-language schools like the two-year...catering to a growing group of well-off Afrikaans families concerned about the decline...government efforts to force the use of Afrikaans, the language of white Dutch settlers...
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Medea praat Afrikaans (1).(Medea speaks Afrikaans)
Magazine article from: Literator: Journal of Literary Criticism, comparative linguistics and literary studies
; ...is daar al verskeie Medea-dramas in Afrikaans opgevoer. Hierdie artikel ondersoek...deur Antjie Krog. Abstract Medea speaks Afrikaans Euripides' "Medea" is one of the Greek...languages and countries. Although no Afrikaans translation of this tragedy has been...
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