Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragic, depressing story; discrimination and poverty still plague most Chicanos. Those conditions deserve considerable attention, especially from Texans, who find them easy to forget or ignore. But Coles fails to examine the complex roots of such conditions, such as language differences, the problems of assimilating a continuing flow of foreign immigrants, and the persistent cultural antagonism between white Texans and Mexican-Americans. With pompous exaggeration, he describes the plight of the Chicano farm worker...
...When the bankers would ask questions about the U.D.C. 's in come, says Jackson R.E. Phillips, director of municipal bond research at Moody's Investors Service, agency officers would blithely reply that "they had the state's backing and didn't need to provide cash-flow projections...
...Meany's early Democratic favorite had been Senator Henry (Scoop) Jackson, whose record on domestic affairs earned the AFL-CIO's support. But Meany was angered by Jackson's support of the trade bill, fearing that it would threaten jobs in this country by increasing the flow of American capital and technology overseas. More important, Meany accused Jackson of "phonying around with Henry Kissinger," claiming that for almost two months the Senator had joined the Secretary of State in concealing a Soviet let ter rejecting a trade agreement with the U.S. that seemed all settled...
...anything be done to stop this vast and insane flow of weapons? Only a few attempts at arms control have succeeded. The Antarctic is a "weapons-free zone," and NATO and Japan for the past quarter-century have voluntarily refrained from exporting strategic goods to Communist-bloc nations. The U.S. imposes elaborate restrictions on the sale of the shoulder-fired Redeye anti aircraft missile because it could be disastrous if the easy-to-use weapon fell into the hands of terrorists, who could then fire it at civilian airliners...
...often, however, self-restraint has failed. The Tripartite Declaration of 1950, in which the U.S., France and Britain pledged to limit the flow of weapons into the Middle East, broke down four years later when the French agreed to supply Israel with tanks and planes. Even the tvso superpowers, for all the months of negotiating at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, have not been able to ban anything but the anti-ballistic missile, the effectiveness of which was seriously doubted anyway...