Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation at having to share his command with Harbor Pilot Jim Hurd, the curly-headed Alaskan in charge of maneuvering Anchorage through the narrows. With a tug's help we get under way. Thirty minutes out Hurd calls for a hard left turn, followed by mildly tricky navigation past a needle-shaped island named Middle Rock. The channel is close to a half-mile wide, one of the safest in the world. But even so there is obvious danger...
...average in the archdiocese (and $1,700 in Chicago public schools). The cruel story is repeated in many urban ghettos. The church is unable or unwilling to subsidize education for non-Catholics (60% of the Providence-St. Mel enrollment), but the law does not permit tax money to help out because the schools are under religious sponsorship...
...order to promote more investment that would help everybody, Steiger and his allies argue, taxes must be cut for the people who have money to put to work. Michael K. Evans, president of Chase Econometrics, figures that if Steiger's amendment passes, stock prices would jump 40% in two years. One reason: investors would pull money out of bank savings, municipal bonds and mattresses to pursue capital gains in the stock market. As prices rose, Evans continues, companies would be able to finance a huge expansion of plant and equipment spending by selling new stock. The payoff: a speedup...
Unfortunately, there seems to be little chance that these small steps will lead to any sustained effort by the rich nations to help the poor. Says U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal: "In view of our domestic problems, no substantial increase in assistance seems feasible at present." Many Western statesmen contend that the LDCs lack the infrastructure (roads, ports, dams, railways), political organization and expertise to use much more aid than they are now getting. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "I do not believe that a kind of Marshall Plan for the Third World-which today would...
...Stanford University Hospital, but student editors of the Stanford Daily (circ. 15,000) covered the event anyway. A wise move. Violence broke out, and nine policemen were injured. Three days later the police, armed with a search warrant, barged into the Daily's offices looking for photographs that might help identify their assailants. They found nothing of use, and the Daily filed suit. Eventually, two lower courts found that the paper's constitutional rights had been violated, and the police were ordered to pay $47,000 in attorneys' fees...