Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dole, so that today, 9,000,000 Americans are receiving welfare. The bill has risen even faster: excluding social security and other Government insurance plans, the cost of welfare to all levels of government is $5.5 billion a year. Of this, the Federal Government pays a little more than half, the cities about 12%, and the states a third. Many of the cities, including local government in the suburbs, are discovering that welfare is threatening them with bankruptcy. In a little more than two years, New York City has added enough people to the rolls to constitute another Miami. Some...
...though it is hard to see what else Israel could do. Caught between the Israelis and their own milA problem of militant populations, Arab leaders could be pushed to extremes to which they do not want to go. Lest he appear less militant than the guerrillas, Nasser has sent half of Egypt's 141st battalion to southern Jordan and last October Egyptian forces launched an artillery attack on Israel for no other apparent purpose than to silence sniping at home about his comparative lack of zeal against Israel...
...event. A child is an asset that brings happiness fully compensating for any material damages." Last month a court in Schleswig-Holstein disagreed. While declaring that the Knacks had "a general responsibility to check what they bought," the court ruled that Reimer was negligent and ordered him to pay half the cost of the boy's upbringing until Thomas reaches 18. "Grotesque," said Reimer's attorney about the decision, which appeared to be the first of its kind either in West Germany or, for that matter, the U.S. Reimer plans an appeal...
...reverse the procedure of you asking me questions, which I would then evade, to one in which you will let me ask you some questions." He then asked, in effect, for the Europeans in the audience to advise him on how to do his new job. For about a half hour, Kissinger, a symbol of American power, sat by the podium and diligently took notes while a German, a Frenchman and an Englishman tried to define the problems of U.S. foreign policy and offer some solution...
...this effort Shaw marshalled all his technical prowess and produced the definitive summation of his theories concerning power, money, work, and conscience. Of all Shaw's outpourings, this is perhaps the most purely comic in tone, and therefore affords a splendid view of the craftsman at work, of a half century of theatrical experience synthesized into two hours and some odd of laugh piled upon laugh. That the play also manages to come briefly to grips with a serious theme is, well, downright remarkable...