Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baluch feel that their land is being colonized. Every year hundreds of settlers from the Punjab and Sind are assigned to the province's bureaucracy. Of the twelve provincial secretaries in Quetta, only one is Baluch. There are no Baluch on the staff that administers martial law. Among 1,120 students at the provincial university, only 269 are members of Baluch tribes...
...liaison office in Peking, Teng raised a glass of California champagne to Leonard Woodcock, the chief of the American mission, who is expected to be named the first U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic. In an elaborate toast, the husky-voiced Vice Premier said, "I feel certain that the far-reaching influence the establishment of diplomatic relations between our two countries exerts upon the defense of world peace will become more and more evident with the passage of time...
...their goods and services by another $3 billion or so. Billions of this, trillions of that: it is beginning to sound as if the national currency were McDonald's hamburgers. More than all the other measurements of gloom, the one statistic that people can really grasp and feel is that the U.S. enters 1979 with prices almost exactly double what they were in 1967, the date that the government uses to mark the beginning of the inflationary spiral...
...bought houses a decade ago are generally much better off than those who saved and delayed. Since the late 1960s, mortgage rates have almost doubled to just over 10%, and the average price of a new house has jumped from $24,600 to $65,700. Many families justly feel that they cannot afford a house, and they continue to pay rents that are climbing year after year. Property taxes also have been rising, but homeowners still come out better than the victimized renters because property taxes and mortgage interest payments can be deducted from federal and state income taxes...
...their varied experiences with inflation, Americans everywhere share a deepening sense of being threatened. Says Dorothy Danielson, 63, who lives with her husband, a retired Lutheran minister, in Largo, Fla.: "I feel fortunate that we have a roof over our heads, but if inflation continues to rise, it's going to be a real problem. You never know when a great emergency is going to come up, and our savings wouldn't be worth a hill of beans." To supplement the couple's church pension and Social Security, she cleans house for a neighbor while her husband...