Word: beefing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Families with Dependent Children funds must register for job training and referral programs. The concept of "workfare" has long been dear to critics anxious to cut welfare chiselers from the relief rolls. It was a prime component of Nixon's reform package. The Talmadge amendments slightly beef up existing regulations requiring job registration for welfare recipients, but in fact they are not so stringent as some provisions of H.R.I. For example, mothers with children under the age of six would be exempt under the Talmadge plan; the Nixon proposals exempt mothers whose children are three or under. Included...
Still, Chileans have plenty of reason to be annoyed by the growing food problems. Partly because the Allende regime has not moved forcefully enough against illegal seizures of farms by armed extremists, agricultural production has plummeted. Beef is available one week a month; poultry, eggs and other staples disappear from market shelves by midmorning. Food imports are soaring, and at the rate Allende is spending his country's foreign-exchange reserves -$20 million a month-the treasury will run dry by next spring...
...divide, say, the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland. The Hindu inhabits a world peopled by deities, in which material things and the individual are fundamentally unimportant. He lives a life carefully circumscribed by a whole host of social, cultural and religious taboos. All outsiders are suspect, but beef-eating Moslems are particularly "unclean." (Moslems, for their part, regard Hindus and other nonbelievers as infidels.) Almost all of the subcontinent's Moslems-89%, by one authoritative estimate-are descendants of low-caste Hindus who converted to Islam, which emphasizes individuality and equality under a single deity. They...
Whoever wins the election will face an uphill battle to turn the nation's sluggish economy around. In the mid-1950s, world demands for Uruguay's two major exports, wool and beef, fell off sharply. Since then, inflation has soared 9,000%. Between 1956 and 1968, the country's gross national product fell 15%. Its social welfare programs, once a model for the world (by 1915, Uruguay had instituted the eight-hour day, free medical service and compulsory education), have bogged down in a lumbering bureaucracy. A quarter of Uruguay's 1,000,000-member work...
...Despite all the current hullabaloo over J. Edgar Hoover [Oct. 25], it is evident that the bureau goes right along with its job, impressively directed. There's a growing cancer of distrust in society, from corn flakes to cars, Pentagon papers to pressed beef, police to press, all are being subject to self-styled revelators. Much of this merely gives aid and comfort to the enemy-crime...