Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 5 million blacks collect some form of public welfare payments. The number of black families receiving aid for dependent children rose from 737,000 in 1969 to 1,093,000 in 1971. The total of black families headed by women has also increased. Seven years ago, 27.7% of poor black families were in this category; last year the figure had jumped...
Behind his argument is a large body of British opinion that the benefits of membership in the Common Market have been oversold. Many Britons believe that the 13.6% jump in the cost of food last year can be blamed directly on the subsidies that French farmers collect under the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy. Beyond that, there is a visceral feeling that Britain ought not to be part of Europe, at least for the moment. According to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of all Britons surveyed thought it was wrong for their country to join the Common Market. Among...
...wealth buying goods and services from the U.S., Europe and Japan. But the richest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Libya, have small populations and preindustrial economies; they can spend on imports only a minor part of the $100 billion oil revenues that they will collect this year...
...ventilation systems emptied on a regular basis. Working clothes must be changed immediately before returning home to eliminate uncontrolled exposure. The ventilation systems required to cleanse and recirculate the plant atmospheres are often so elaborate that ceilings must be kept clean; two or three inches of asbestos dust may collect on them in a very short time. An operation so simple as shoveling old brake shoes into a disposal vehicle may present a considerable danger...
...work. Further, though insurers have tried hard to work out a system for peaceful coexistence of fault and no-fault systems in nearby states, some legal complexities remain. For example, if drivers from the fault states of Texas and Mississippi run into each other in New York, they can collect under that state's no-fault law. If they crash in New Jersey, they are not covered by that state's no-fault plan but must take each other to court...