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...take place benefits tiny portions of poor nations: in Brazil, for instance, between 1968 and 1972, while 5 per cent of the population grew more wealthy, 50 per cent stayed the same, and 45 per cent grew poorer. If development did occur along western lines, the world would soon exhaust almost all non-renewable resources, and the ecological destruction we have seen in America would spread world-wide...
Even a successful job search can exhaust a person's resources. Charles Kent Evans, 48, lost a $25,000-per-year job as vice president of Delta, Inc., a manufacturing firm in Jonesboro, Ark. Looking for a new post, he was willing to accept a cut to as low as $9,000. He sent out 100 resumes, listed himself with five employment agencies, got written recommendations from his Senators, J. William Fulbright and John McClellan. Still, it took him 18 months to find work, as director of the Arkansas State Nurses Association. During his ordeal, he depleted his life...
Considering that the worst problems challenging these countries are their underfed, underemployed and uneducated lower classes, and that the prodigal expenditures on weapons exhaust the already scarce means to buy agricultural machines, create new job opportunities and build schools, it is quite reasonable to anticipate situations in which the gun will be the only tool available to work on the problems...
Loaded Tankers. Another consideration was the replacement of about 80,000 bbl. of oil per day, or 50% of its requirements, that Israel is pumping out of the Abu Rudeis oilfields in Sinai-a rate that by present estimates will exhaust the fields within five years. In Zurich, Kissinger met with ski-vacationing Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran, whose refineries already provide about 50% of Israel's oil needs. The Shah was willing to make up the difference from Abu Rudeis if the fields were given back to Egypt. "Once the tankers are loaded," he said grandly, "where...
...United States is "getting into the vicious cycle we had during the days of the Great Depression," he said. Workers are beginning to exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits and will soon be unable to make consumer purchases, he added...