Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social Security is truly a farce. After turning 22, I had an accident that left me disabled. Although I applied for every form of Social Security benefit, I was rejected because I had not worked the past five out of twelve years. Really now, how could I when I only reached the legal working age four years ago? After paying into the Social Security program for four years, I learn only that rules are rules, and the poor get poorer...
...with them. He's a bit like Jimmy Carter, who sometimes says more than his prudent advisers think smart." Although the timing of the trip was a distinct surprise, Sadat's determination to instigate some movement toward peace in the Middle East by a dramatic act began to take form as early as spring...
...West, for its part, expects to form closer but hardly client-style ties to Somalia. The U.S. is ready to resume economic assistance, after a hiatus of six years, at the level of about $10 million a year. West Germany, grateful for Somalia's help in its Mogadishu skyjacking rescue operation last month, will provide $17 million over the next 14 months. But neither the U.S. nor any other Western country is anxious to lavish much military aid on Somalia while it is still at odds with Ethiopia...
...price of newly discovered oil to rise to the 1977 OPEC level, and the oil companies to retain the increased revenue. To lessen the draining effect of the wellhead tax on consumer spending power Carter proposed that much of the tax proceeds be recycled back to consumers in the form of rebates...
...areas, where production costs are higher than in, say, Texas or Louisiana. Yet increased oil production is not all that is needed; vast amounts of energy are available from unconventional and extremely costly sources such as tar sands and shale, and potentially limitless energy is at hand in the form of solar and geothermal power. The best-and most likely-compromise solution is to retain the wellhead tax but channel some of the proceeds into research and development programs for unconventional sources...