Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women have actually voted there). Maryland excludes all "Papists," the original settlers, who are now only 8 percent of the population, while New York also has passed a resolution to bar Jews (a tiny group numbering only about 250). Among the most important restrictions are the property requirements that exist in twelve states, ranging from Georgia's rule that a voter must own 50 acres to South Carolina's granting a vote to anyone who has paid 10 shillings in taxes...
...Gandhi proposed a "national fitness" program because "we cannot afford to be a flabby nation-we must get rid of flabbiness in body and mind and be strong in every way." She deplored the fact that women in India, by and large, "have no personality of their own and exist merely to serve the whims of men." Then she turned to the government's stern family planning policy, which aims at reducing the country's growth rate from over 2% to 1.4% by 1980. Among her recommendations: providing a strong program of incentives and "disincentives," raising the legal...
...That sort of suspicion and the fact that it always had to exist between all the students really got me thinking," Mark says. "It drowns out the importance of conscientiously trying to be good to other people...people who are in there busting ass to be the best and only worried about their own status don't realize that they need other people and that coming across as a decent person is a vital part of medicine...
...have been compared with Alexander Dubček of Czechoslovakia. 'We all know that Communism with a human face was not permitted to exist there. Could it happen here...
...behavior of interest rates indicates that businessmen and lenders believe the improvement is real and will continue. In that environment, businesses have less need to borrow: their costs are rising less rapidly, while their profits and cash flow are up sharply. So the demand does not exist to support high interest rates, even if lenders tried to get them...