Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family money-an immense advantage for a man with political ambitions-neither is hurt by the aura of wealth. Indeed, it is a peculiarity of American political reporting that only self-made men are generally labeled "rich." (Actually, Lindsay's total $140,000 inheritance is exceeded by the annual return alone on Bobby's fortune of perhaps $15 million.) What brought them together, after they patched up an unseemly fracas over whether Lindsay had been rude to Kennedy, is a proposition on the November ballot for voter approval of Lindsay's new civilian-dominated police-review board...
...voice vote both houses last week slammed through minor bills en masse. Probing questions about important legislation were often brusquely slapped down. When the week began, only seven of 13 annual appropriations bills had been passed; when it was over, all had been hustled through the assembly line. On one key measure, the Senate voted in the absence of 30 members, most of whom had left to fight home-state campaign battles. Lamenting the proportionate absence of deliberation on the Senate floor, Vermont Republican George Aiken remarked: "I've never seen the Senate act more irresponsibly...
Tuberculosis and pneumonia still kill the bulk of Filipinos; teachers are in surplus in Manila, in short supply in the countryside. With 70% of the population engaged in subsistence, peasant-style farming, the average annual income is a scant $140 a year?far less than that of Japan and Formosa. Population growth is among the world's highest: Catholic-dominated Filipinos add 1,000,000 mouths a year to the rice bowl (3.2%). Simultaneously, the economic-growth rate is a minimal 4.2% . The rice yield is scandalously low. Of the world's top 20 major rice-producing nations, the Philippines...
...peasant fled in terror to Kong Le, who sent Souvanna Phouma a telegram warning of impending disaster. Souvanna, who does not believe in dragons, shrugged it away. Even when the Mekong River started to rise, he attributed it simply to the annual monsoon rains. But the river kept on rising, to a 40-year high, which put the lower sections of the city 'deep under swirling brown water. Suddenly, Parisian education or no, the prince changed his mind: he could be blamed for the disaster unless he followed the dragon's instructions. He called on Kong...
...controversy over government financing of academic research is partly responsible for a bill now before the Senate that would set up an independent National Foundation for the Social Sciences. The agency, modeled after the National Science Foundation, would have an annual budget of $15 to $20 million with which to subsidize research in political science, psychology, economics and other social sciences...