Word: impoverish
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...outright gifts to buy the goods, and at the same time refuse foreign imports that could well pay for U.S. exports. The U.S. is quickly approaching the position where it will become heavily dependent upon raw materials imported from abroad. Keeping tariffs, the board argued, would only serve to impoverish Americans, lower their standards of living and deplete their natural resources...
Thus the tendency of most Plan E governments to impoverish the legislative body's authority has been fulfilled in Cambridge. The separation of authority that is basic to the system has been violated, and there is little that Cambridge voters can do about it for the moment. But for the future, at least one solution presents itself: limited tenure for city managers. The proper time limit is, of course, problemmatical. It must be of sufficient duration to allow a manager enough time to gain experience and put it to use, and yet it must be short enough to prevent...
...exporting some $3 billion in food, 10% of its total food stocks, a third of its total wheat production. Critics of the Administration program cried out not for more generosity but for less. On one hand were those who thought the program would impoverish the U.S. On the other hand were those who believed that such continuing abnormal exports, creating shortages at home, would send prices into the final runaway inflation...
...public debt: "Our national debt is after all an internal debt owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children...
Last week Das Schwarze Korps, descended from appalling generalities to particulars. It proposed this program to destroy Germany's Jews as follows: first impoverish them; this will end in the Jews' having no other means of livelihood than to descend to criminality; "at this stage of development we should therefore face the hard necessity of exterminating the Jewish underworld in the same fashion in which ... we exterminate criminals generally?by fire and sword...