Word: level
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bromley-Heath project is run by the Boston Housing Authority, a federally-financed state agency. To qualify for housing a family has to have a certain low level of income, and once this income ceiling is passed, a resident of the project has to move out. Thus, the project houses a reservoir of families who are incapable of independently earning a living. Over half of the 1200 families in the project have no male head, and sometimes the three or four children in the family are fathered by different men. About 50 per cent of the families in the project...
...central Boston, though it's just a trolley ride away. Poverty also has been linked to disease. Federal statistics show that for a person under 45 with an income of $10,000 or more the average number of visits to a physician is 5.0 per year. When the income level drops to under $3,000 visits drop to 3.2 per year. Even with free medical programs this discrepancy remains. In England after fifteen years experience with the National Health Service, it's the higher income groups that make better use of the program. And at the Martha Eliot Center...
Mayor Kan'an doubts that the new borders, however temporary, have improved Israeli-Arab relations. He stresses that business contact with the Israelis is a necessity for the West Bank. But he believes that the political climate excludes any contact on a human level: "We Arabs are living under an occupation and are just waiting for the Israeli army to withdraw." According to him the Jews are not helping the cause of peace either: "They are enjoying their victory; they are living on the territory they always dreamt about having." I ask the mayor what will help the cause...
...across in first class. Two aisles toward the sides of the plane will separate the eight seats into a two-four-two arrangement. The plane can also carry 345 people, all in tourist class. Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing and takeoff space and will arrive and depart more quietly than present jets. Beginning with the first delivery in late 1971, both...
...personal level, his chronicles of daily life in prison, his regimen of self-education there, and the account of his romance with his white female lawyer Beverly Axelrod are both eloquent and moving. It is she, in fact, who strikes the most hopeful and perceptive note in this book. "Your hatred is large," she writes to him in a letter, "but not nearly so vast as you sometimes imagine; it can be used, but it can also be soothed and softened...