Word: eighteens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poor migrants, the wartime urban boom has made possible incomes five times those which they had in the countryside. In one Saigon slum, Xom Chua, in early 1965 before the American build-up, the people lived at a depressed level, with 33 per cent of the adult males unemployed. Eighteen months later, as a result of the military escalation, the total population of the slum had increased by 30 per cent, but the unemployment rate had dropped to 5 per cent and average incomes had doubled. In several cases urban refugees from the war refused to return to their villages...
...turn the matter over to your hands, in the hope that you will ask yourselves why what would seem to be a relatively simple matter has taken over eighteen months, and then was done improperly. I hope you can acknowledge the need for re-intervention at this point, realize the underlying reasons for difficulties, and delay up to this point, and come up with a with resolution that is worthy of an academic body...
...peace: to live like the city-state of Athens, culturally, economically, open and expanding, but to be prepared at all times to become a fortress-state, a Sparta, and to fight to the end. The ubiquity of soldiers is understandable in light of the fact that every Israeli male, eighteen years of age (almost without exception) must serve in the armed forces for three years, after which, until he is fifty-four, he will serve up to eight weeks a year in the reserves. There is no military state of mind, as such, as opposed to a civilian one, primarily...
...Crimson stretched it to 67-57 at half-time, and at the start of the second half, went ahead by eighteen...
...Eighteen-year olds will be able to register for the draft between 30 days before and 30 days after their eighteenth birthdays...