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...House probe's meager results...
...shipbuilding yards and textile mills are meeting tough competition from spanking new facilities in lowpaying, less developed nations such as Brazil and South Korea. Small-and medium-size general merchandise producers of toys, hardware and household goods are losing markets to rivals in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Profits are meager for many companies, and 18,000 firms went bankrupt last year...
...Jarvis portrayed it, his goal was to relieve the government-inflicted sufferings of taxpayers. Said he: "We have seen the trauma of high taxes on older people. The deteriorating state of mind. The disease. The ulcers. When elderly people get those tax bills on their meager homes that demand another $1,500 a year, they get a cloud over their heads. Many of them give up the spirit and quietly die. One woman had a heart attack in front of me back in 1962 right in the assessor's office. That means something to me. Even the Russians...
Fischer, no spendthrift, sued the magazine over the article. He is known to have contributed at least $94,000 to the Worldwide Church. A trifling sum, when compared with the generosity of a reported 75,000 church members, many of meager means, who each year give more than a tenth of their gross income to the cause. The fabulous take: $75 million a year, including large donations from Garner Ted's radio-TV fans...
Carefully avoiding any mention of its own struggles against capitalism, Peking has complained that "many Chinese in Viet Nam had the meager fruits of decades of hard work confiscated and stolen; most Chinese living in Ho Chi Minh City had their property searched and impounded before having to flee in a pathetic state...