Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barrel up to the cartel rate of $14.55, or 35? per gal. Shipping adds about $1.25 per bbl., or 3? per gal. But the actual cost of the journey is perhaps no more than a few cents a barrel. The difference is the profit for the tanker operators to help cover the expenses of maintaining huge, often idle fleets and sending empty tankers back to the Middle East...
...employees read original scripts for movies, with a view toward helping producers finance those that look good. The purpose is to assure a supply of movies for HBO customers. Results of the first few films that have been produced with HBO's help have been mixed: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? was a moderate success; Magic and The Bell Jar were panned by many critics, including those writing for Tune Inc. magazines...
They are variously involved with the needs and wishes of Latin America's largest class, the desperately poor, the uneducated, the politically unorganized. In fetid Netzahualcdyotl, a slum of 2.6 million people that grows like a tumor on the outskirts of Mexico City, several comunidades have cooperated to help protest rising bus fares and appalling health conditions. Human feces lie in the streets. Contaminated water adds to the filth and contributes to a death rate of more than 50% among children less than four years of age. Before Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in January...
...spiritual pursuits like reading, Bible study or training non-priests to lead services in remote districts that the church does not reach regularly. One of that country's priests was asked by his bishop to leave the southern sugar-cane town of Puerto Tejada when he started to help the citizenry demand potable water. In Argentina, government repression has all but destroyed the comunidades. But elsewhere, throughout the hemisphere, the little groups have become a force to be reckoned with. Last February at the Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) in Puebla, Mexico, the comunidades were given a special...
According to Knight, his hosts ultimately were unable to confine their hostility to the printed page. While visiting the city of Tashkent, 1,800 miles southeast of Moscow, Knight and his wife Jean went to a tearoom to help celebrate their Intourist guide's 29th birthday. Robin Knight was given a drink that, he says, made him feel "very ill and out of control." He staggered outside and passed out. Meantime, Knight later said, one of the four Soviet men present told Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke...