Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many women in the underclass, welfare has turned illegitimate pregnancy into a virtual career. Says Barbara Wright, a welfare mother of four in Brooklyn: "A lot of young girls in the ghetto believe that the only way for them to get something in this society is by becoming pregnant and getting on welfare." One Harlem hustler makes the all-too-typical rationalization: "Everybody steals. Politicians steal. What's the use to bust my ass from 9 to 5 to get $100 a week...
...being unemployable is just so much rubbish. Everybody is unemployable at one wage rate, and everybody is employable at another." Perhaps not quite everybody. In a free economy, there will always be some small fraction of people who lack the skills or discipline to work. But there is a lot of work that needs doing?cleaning up parks, repairing abandoned buildings, taking part in the burgeoning service trades?at reasonable wages...
...Hawaii, was Presley's bestselling album ever. The Colonel was constantly nudging Presley away from rock, stuffing him into an entertainment package that offered a little something for everyone. Audiences stayed loyal, and Presley earned millions each year. No matter that with the coming of the Beatles a lot of rockers deserted him. Elvis had already set their style...
Coke does not stand to lose a lot even if it is kicked out of India. Coke production in India has almost stopped anyway because the government has held up renewal of the company's license to import ingredients for the drink. Indian sales accounted for only one-fifth of 1% of the company's $3.1 billion worldwide revenues last year. Just in case Coke does leave, Indian researchers have come up with a substitute that they hope will be commercially exploited, keep bottling plants running and employment up. But the copied Coke may not work. India...
That's the kind of picture it is-everybody wears his world-weariness on his sleeve while gallantly enacting some ritual of self-sacrifice, preferably a futile one. The Legionnaires are a carefully assorted lot, the exotic equivalent of the cross sections found in bomber crews in World War II movies-a soulful French muscian, a what-ho English blueblood, a hulking Russian who once guarded the Czar's family, and so on. Hackman and the chieftain of the hostile desert tribes (Ian Holm) are, naturally, old and respectful friends, although somehow Scriptwriter David Zelag Goodman neglected...