Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-illiteracy campaign, the Cuban job market is glutted. Concedes Minister of Education José Ramón Fernández Alvarez: "We are educating more people than we have jobs for immediately. The reason is that the majority of those who are graduating today could not have gone to university at all before the revolution...
...President was misleading when he thundered that the Steiger amendment would scarcely yield "two bits for the average American." Many "average" Americans have found that inflation has sent the price of their property way up; but the real value of the dollars that they collect upon selling it has gone way down. Thus it seems only fair to reduce the tax bite on capital gains. If those taxes are eased, many people who have been holding on to their property may be inclined to sell. Then everybody would benefit: the sellers would pocket profits, on which they would pay taxes...
...working-class neighborhoods. The El is the last remaining symbol of the era, long forgotten, when New York was a carefully-watched melting pot, a neat patchwork of ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods linked by the roaring steel subways that carried people to and from their work. Now that era is gone, destroyed as methodically as if someone had taken one of those frighteningly indiscreet air-hammers to it. And there is no work...
...diameter to near normal size. Then, deflating the balloon, the doctor withdrew both catheters. The entire procedure took less than an hour and was apparently successful; a new set of X rays showed that the artery, free of obstruction, once more carried blood freely. Two days later, his angina gone, Robert left the hospital and returned to work...
...from the air, for the first summit conference of the American state and the Chinese revolution, unannounced. Because it was a dull afternoon, John Paton Davies, the State Department's political adviser to Stilwell, Colonel David Barrett, chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered...