Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing their income in the future. In general, the formula would call for such families to pay 20% of their income for housing-and the Government would make up any necessary difference. Critics might wonder if an $8,000-a-year family really ought to be on a dole, but the President insisted that this section might "prove the most effective instrument of our new housing policy...
Shake-Up. Until four years ago, the intellectual life was as placid as the setting. Then former Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board of regents, appointed an energetic new group headed by Dole Corp. President Herbert C. Cornuelle. This board brought in Hamilton, who began a ten-year development program that strives for particular excellence in those fields in which Hawaii enjoys natural advantages. Hamilton sees these as the behavioral sciences related to the area's multicultural citizenry, those cultural disciplines in which "the East-West dialogue is best promoted," and natural sciences tied to Hawaii...
...backgrounds, locate errant husbands, head off trouble-bound youngsters, find quarters for those evicted by landlords or tenement fires, worry over tardy or stolen relief checks. In between, he is supposed to provide his clients with whatever social services and counseling he deems necessary to get them off the dole and to keep them and their children from becoming "welfare addicts." Says one welfare-worker: "If I had the time, I could get a third of my cases off relief...
Past Nelson's Column and on up Piccadilly to Hyde Park marched 10,000 irate Britons bearing mock coffins and neatly lettered banners. "We backed you at the poll," read the slogans. "Don't put us on the dole." Gloomed another: "Prepare to meet thy doom." The demonstrators were British aircraft workers, and the object of their protest last week was Prime Minister Harold Wilson's troubled Labor government...
...Communists, of course, are helping only Cuba, while the U.S. is committed to 19 Latin American nations. And so far Moscow has very little to show for its dole; Castro has used most of the money hand-to-mouth for the food and other basic goods needed to keep Cuba's fractured economy barely alive. Nevertheless, ECLA thinks that the massive infusion of money, assuming it continues, will begin to show results in the next two years. For 1965-66, the report predicted "important increases" " in Cuban industrial and agricultural production, noted Castro's plans to raise exports...