Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some federal authorities argue differently. A 1975 Department of Labor study estimated that while 77% of illegal aliens had Social Security taxes withheld from their paychecks and 73% had federal income taxes deducted, less than 1% were on welfare and less than 8% had children in school. The study's conclusion: illegal aliens provide a net benefit to the U.S. economy...
...frequent breakdowns in equipment. Zambia, already suffering from falling world copper prices, found it increasingly difficult to get the metal to markets. Skyrocketing prices and continual shortages of such vital goods as soap, matches and cooking oil created popular unrest and encouraged political opposition to Kaunda's less-than-democratic regime...
...snail darter has thus become the symbol of a much larger question: At what price shall the environment be protected? Opponents of refunding want to make the Endangered Species Act less rigid, especially when a species is being protected at the expense of what they consider the larger public good. Accordingly, some members of Congress have submitted legislation that would allow endangered flora and fauna to be wiped out if saving them proved too costly. Says an aide to Robin Beard, a Tennessee Republican leading the House antifunding forces: "The problem now is that the law allows no exceptions...
...LESS CROWDED AIRPORTS. The Civil Aeronautics Board is trying to persuade the airlines to route more flights through smaller, "satellite" fields that are at present underused. Greater use is already being made of Oakland airport outside San Francisco and Hollywood-Burbank in Los Angeles. At the main airports, lines increasingly are busing passengers to and from their planes when space at the regular gates is tight. Expanding airport facilities can be difficult, and not only because of the costs. At Los Angeles International Airport construction of a new terminal to handle foreign flights has been long delayed pending preparation...
Price has been the major deterrent. A computer system costs about $20,000 per check-out lane, or $150,000 for the average supermarket-a stiff investment for a chain commonly operating on profit margins of 2% or less. Still, most chains are now testing the systems and are pleased with their performance. The number of installations is slowly growing, with 500 units expected to be in place by year's end and 1,000 by 1980. The surviving equipment-makers are still counting on huge sales eventually, but the wait in line is going to be long...