Word: livings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran's villages, where 53% of the country's 33.6 million people live, the old customs survive. Fifty-three percent of Iranian women remain illiterate, and for them the only means of survival is marriage, their only protection the family. A girl is frequently married by her late teens. On the wedding night, her parents expect to be able to show proof of her virginity. The girl often goes to work and lives in her mother-in-law's house...
...Bonn's top expert on monetary affairs. Last week, after she failed to show up for work, agents of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, West Germany's equivalent of the FBI, discovered that she had fled with all her belongings-as well as those of her live-in boyfriend, Robert Kresse. "She even took her canary," said a Verfassungsschutz agent...
...ousted leader had a certain genius for accumulating cash, it seemed unlikely that he would succeed in reinstating himself on an island that has been impoverished by his greed and mismanagement. The economy is nearly bankrupt, 50% of the labor force is unemployed, and most of the islanders live at subsistence level. Last week Bishop's government was planning to establish farming cooperatives and to seek foreign aid in an attempt to repair the damage...
Felix Rohatyn, 50, partner, Lazard Frères, New York City. He has made only one major investment in the past six months, a house on 2½ acres in Southampton, N.Y. "If worse comes to worse, I can always plant some lettuce and corn and live off the land," he says. Rohatyn is filling his house with antiques because "what I paid $1,000 for this year, I probably could have bought for $300 two years ago, and probably would have to spend $2,000 for a year and a half from now." He also cites as a "spectacularly...
...spokesmen for the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group was calling for an evacuation of the area surrounding the leaking Harrisburg reactor. "Some of that radioactivity may end up here, and if it does there are problems: 40 million people live between here and Harrisburg, and New York City is only 115 miles away," he said...