Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Carter's plan the government would provide aid to households with incomes falling below 12.5 per cent of the federal poverty level. Based on the present poverty level, families with incomes up to $8,950 a year would be eligible for benefits...
...Most of our people and politicians have not yet realized the danger," says a top-level West German narcotics agent, "but the situation is almost out of hand already." Overworked police are appealing to the federal government for tougher antidrug laws and more manpower. Says Erich Strass, the federal crime office's narcotics chief: "We must put the drug danger on the same level with the terrorist danger. Otherwise we will be overwhelmed in a year...
...latest in a series of moves by Chinese authorities to extend the hand of recognition to China's Christians and other religious believers. In January the Religious Affairs Bureau, dormant for years, was revived in Peking, along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over 20 years, have reportedly been released. The People...
...jury duty pays-$30 a day plus some extras-will opt out. That leaves, says Stanford Law School Professor William Baxter, juries of "the old, the jobless and the poor." At the 14-month trial of SCM vs. Xerox, a $1.5 billion antitrust suit, the jurors' average education level was tenth grade...
...vaudeville act. The routine evolved by the Three Keatons consisted chiefly of father kicking and bashing son around the stage. One reviewer in 1905 complained about the "tiresome use of the child's body for the wiping of the stage floor." As Buster grew, so did the level of showtime violence, and the only way to keep audiences entertained without frightening them was for the little boy to look utterly removed. Keaton described his education: "In this knockabout act, my father and I used to hit each other with brooms, occasioning for me strange flops and falls...