Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What keeps the welfare rolls long? One answer may be that Government programs and the tax system work to reduce the incentive for the deprived to take jobs, at least in areas where welfare benefits are high. That is the conclusion of an analysis of inner-city family income in Los Angeles by Economist Arthur ("Curve") Laffer, who has popularized the theory that lower tax rates lead to increased business activity and therefore to higher tax revenues...
...rebounded. This it did in about 2000 B.C., when a new culture rose around the town of Kerma. In Brooklyn its manifestations are a score of objects found in the tombs of Kerma's warrior kings?circular mounds that were as much as 90 meters in diameter, complete with inner rooms containing everything that might be needed in the afterlife. (Domestic animals and the bodies of hundreds of servants were found in some of the tombs.) Just how sophisticated Kerma was is demonstrated in Brooklyn by its pottery, more luminous in color, more intricately incised and more delicately turned than...
...divisions also exist between workers in each of the three sectors. These tensions produce antagonisms between the suburb and the inner city, and by general private sector sentiment against wage increases in the public sector. O'Connor adds, however, that these tensions are superficial, suggesting several means whereby working people can unite to secure democratic control of state expenditures...
George Carlin's adulthood forces him to engage in some introspection--sorting out his show material (he now leaves only 12 minutes at the end of each show for old material) and some attempts at film. The road to his adulthood, often fraught with rebellion and inner turmoil, mothered the self-expression and irony audiences have come to love Carlin for. Carlin has always been able to articulate, and to parody the sort of conflicts that have become more and more central to youth of America since the '60s: conflicts about sex and decadence and love and identity...
...form of meditation is part of a "spiritual philosophy similar to Hinduism but more universal. It's dedicated to the love and service of people and the development of the inner divinity," Marion Lennihan '74, owner of a local health food store and follower of Sri Chinmoy, said last night...