Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rockefeller's antagonism was reinforced this year by a changed mood in the state legislature. The recession had hardened the resolve of rural and suburban representatives, who were already suspicious of Lindsay's jeremiads predicting destitution and disaster if he did not get the $9.13 billion budget he...
Unbalanced Exchange. While India has temporarily accepted the refugees and is doing its best to help them, the government of Indira Gandhi sees only economic and political disaster in the massive influx of impoverished peoples. The refugee problem has chronically troubled India since the August 1947 partition of the subcontinent...
Comedian Dick Gregory's sardonic commentary all too accurately sums up the prevailing cynicism concerning poverty programs. Critics from suburbia and the ghetto alike tend to view the war on poverty as a disaster area in which money filters down from the unwilling hands of taxpayers into the inefficient...
Precisely because he did care, Dr. Smith's book, which was written with Journalist John Luce, makes a compelling document. Though the tragedy of drug escalation has often been described, its lessons bear repetition. The children Smith describes took drugs for a number of inner compulsions, which in themselves...
If not exactly a projection of guaranteed security, this assessment is not a projection of disaster, either. Perhaps the bankers conclude it is worth putting down money in Vietnam to secure investments elsewhere in Southeast Asia.