Word: dependency
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Male letter writer: "As far as Women's Lib is concerned, I think they are all a bunch of lesbians, and I am a male chauvinist and proud of it." Female: "It's better to let them think they're king of the castle, lean and depend on them, and continue to control and manipulate them as we always have...
...other main group of women who depend largely on Government-administered funds are single or widowed females over 65. Half of them-nearly 4,000,000-have less than $1,889 a year to live on, and the Social Security system quite openly discriminates against them. The pension is based on earned income, and "mere" housewives earn nothing during their years of work. Widows are entitled to survivors' benefits, but these are generally lower than a wage earner's pension. And a commercially employed woman generally earns less than a man. Thus all widowed or single women over...
Harvard's line-up will be an unknown quantity. The Crimson can depend upon its lightweights and heavyweights, but the troublesome middleweight bouts will remain an enigma...
...cent royalty in kind, the Portugese may purchase up to 37.5 per cent of the Gulf oil, and in event of war, all of it. Moreover, the Cabinda oil is especially crucial to the South African regime, which has almost no oil reserves of its own, and would depend on friendly Portugal and friendly Gulf in the event of an international embargo...
...property tax in financing education are so glaring that four state and federal courts in the past year have ruled these disparities unconstitutional. The reason: poor districts cannot raise as much money for schools as rich districts, and the quality of a child's education should not depend on the wealth of his neighborhood. The likely result of these court decisions is that Washington will have to greatly enlarge its subsidies for local schooling in order to eliminate or at least reduce the role of the property tax. The Nixon Administration estimates that the Federal Government will have to come...