Word: allowances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditional religions allow people to live inside history, but still give sacramental expression to their spiritual longings...
...department's budget (currently $9.1 billion) was "barely defensible." If OMB had its way, she asserted, the subsidized housing program in the 1980 budget would not only be "socially regressive" but "unprecedentedly low" in comparison with previous Democratic and even Republican programs. It would, she argued, allow the construction of only 291,000 partially and fully subsidized public housing units under existing programs, in contrast with the 333.000 that will be completed under the current budget. OMB's tightfistedness, she warned, "would risk the disaffection of major segments of those political constituencies" that are vital to the Administration...
...harborless freighter Hai Hong, was coming to a gradual, troubled end. Jammed with 2,500 refugees, the 1,600-ton Hai Hong arrived off Malaysia near Port Kelang on Nov. 9 after two weeks at sea. The government refused to let the ship dock. It would not allow food, water and medicine to be sent to the freighter until last week, when France, Canada and the U.S. agreed to help resettle all aboard. The Malaysian government still will not permit the refugees stranded on the overcrowded, unsanitary vessel to be quartered ashore. Local officials want the Vietnamese to be transferred...
...advantage cited by many of the parents who teach their own children is the freedom to allow them to pursue a subject for as long as they remain interested. Navy Commander Dennis McCahill, an Annapolis graduate, yanked his four children from their Annapolis, Md., school because "the system clamps down on any originality or creativity." How, he asks, "can one teacher answer all the children's questions when there's one teacher for 25 or 30 children? If a child is really interested in geography or any particular topic, after one hour he is expected to put away whatever...
...earliest hominid, or manlike creature, a favorite contender of many paleontologists, the small and apelike Ramapithecus (for the Hindu epic hero Rama), whose bones were first found in India and who died out some 10 million years ago. Perhaps more important, so recent a split would seem to allow far too little time for the development of a creature as sophisticated as modern...