Word: creation
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Some Government agencies, he argues, give perverse incentives to export scarce goods like wheat and cotton, and to export credit, which allows rich countries to buy U.S. goods at less than market prices. Last year Reuss suggested the creation of a congressional price-supply ombudsman to act as watchdog over rising prices. Finally, he would finance a tax reduction for low-to middle-income Americans by, among other things, closing loopholes such as untaxed capital gains at death, hobby-farm deductions, and tax-exempt interest on bonds...
...served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many as 25,000 full-time employees. Even Senator Mansfield concedes that any rationing program would require "a lot of fine tuning...
...factories, workers are still encouraged to make technological improvements; technicians are recruited from the workshops and trained in factory schools. More than 1 million "barefoot doctors," so called to symbolize the once primitive nature of their job and equipment, are at work in the countryside. Another creation of the Cultural Revolution, they staff small production team clinics and seek to provide minimum care for everyone, rather than focus limited medical resources on expensive urban facilities...
...worldwide movement that includes tens of millions of people of nearly every persuasion, from Anglicans to Fundamentalists. While the more liberal Protestants embrace many theologies, Evangelicals are united on a core of orthodox beliefs and take literally the biblical injunction to "proclaim the good news to the whole creation." They are now fielding more missionaries than ever before and have little trouble attracting hundreds of thousands of followers to their crusades...
...among the rich while occasionally fighting for progressive causes. Julio Mesquita, grandfather of the present director, Julio de Mesquita Neto, was the son of landowners who gave up law for journalism. During the 1870s the paper crusaded successfully to abolish slavery. After the monarchy was overthrown, Mesquita supported the creation of a republic. Later, many regimes tried to suppress O Estado, and Mesquita was once imprisoned briefly...