Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less than 13% of its land is arable, only about 66,000 of its 2,500,000 citizens have paying jobs and the average income is only $60 a year. The country's only export earners are bananas, hides and scrawny cattle fed on thorn scrub. The only "pipelines" for drinking water are the donkeys that carry it on their backs to the cities from nearby water holes. The country's first five-year economic plan was so modest that Planning Ministry Director Ahmed Botan described it as "a collection of wishes dependent wholly on foreign...
...fed up with all this hypocrisy," says Killy. "Not a single competitor at the winter games could have taken part if the rules of amateurism had been applied to the letter. As for returning those three gold medals, never. They are a symbol. I won them fairly on the slopes on equal terms with all the other skiers. And that nobody can morally take away from...
...fed up with hawks and doves. I want to be a cougar. A cougar is a creature that never strays far from home, but defends its lair with unparalleled ferocity...
...first three years I got a job in a local Chinese restaurant where people knew my family, a place where upper middle class people would go to dinner. After I got sick of being around the neigbhorhood I got a job somewhere else where in the daytime they fed people from the local universities and a local medical center and in the evenings there were professional women; that is, prostitutes were my regular customers...
Black Power sentiment is fed, among other things, by the urban Negro's pent-up resentment of the white businessmen who make their living from the slum's daily needs. These white-run enterprises, blacks complain, not only batten on the ghetto's misery by overcharging for shoddy goods but also siphon off their profits from Negro neighborhoods and seldom employ black workers...