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Conventional government intervention has largely failed, notably in the chaotic and counterproductive welfare system, which is at once too lax and too rigid. We have been more successful than is often realized in ending or alleviating certain kinds of poverty. The underclass, with its devastated family life, its single mothers and routine teenage pregnancies (among black teenagers, nearly 90% of babies are born out of wedlock), is a nightmare reproach to America. But it is also a relatively isolated phenomenon -- far more so than the poverty that festered behind the proud facades of Victorian England, for example. It requires separate...
...involved some musical cryptoanalysis by Schuller and his associate, Andrew Homzy. Phrasing and tempi had to be established, and the endings of several sections were fragmentary, reflecting Mingus' common practice of working out finales with his musicians at rehearsals. One section called Interlude (The Underdog Rising) was in such chaotic shape that Schuller spent days cutting the unplayable score into 40 separate parts and then piecing it back together like a picture puzzle...
...Western alliance wants to assure the Soviet leader that its intentions are peaceful. But extending aid to Moscow might not help revive the chaotic Soviet economy. -- Los Angeles cops come under fire for their heavy-handed war on gangs. -- Fat-cat farmers: time to get off the dole...
...breakup of the old partnerships between Western oil companies and the producing countries led to a chaotic era in the late 1970s and early 1980s of free-swinging prices set almost purely by market forces. But in the past few years the oil industry has been seeking new collaborations to restore some stability to both supply and demand. Explains Saudi Oil Minister Hisham Nazer: "We have become an integral part of the oil market of the U.S.A., and the return on our investment depends on the health of that market. This is a mutual benefit...
...fact, the South is at a generational turning point, torn between those who remember the hardship and the dangers of the past and young people who often seem heedless of the lessons of history. Many older South Koreans still distrust the chaotic uncertainties of democracy, with its attendant student riots and labor unrest. While they may be uncomfortable with the nation's continued dependence on U.S. troops, they remember all too clearly why the soldiers are there...