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Increasing U.S. Government aid will not solve the critical problems of the starving (though emergency assistance for famine relief is a sine qua non, an absolute essential). Our aid is presently both meager and determined in many ways by political considerations, indicating our real lack of commitment to see human needs met. The Food for Peace Program under PL 480 exported 9 millions tons in 1972, 7.3 in 1973, 3.1 in 1974, and about the same this year, despite growing need. Also, all U.S. aid goes to or through the affluent minority governments of the poorer nations. Even...
...crisis 18 months ago. In a country where lifetime employment has long been the accepted rule, the jobless rate has inched up to 2%. Now the government is moving hesitantly to reflate, though the official goal is only a 4.3% boost in real G.N.P. for the year-downright meager by Japanese standards...
THESE LAPSES, however, seem less important beside Kaplan's achievement. A first-time author, she may need to polish her technique, but she already has at her command no meager arsenal of short-story writing equipment. Above all, these stories display her sure handed ability to sketch character in a few lines of dialogue and her understanding of the delicate juggling act an individual must perform to balance the sharing of other people's lives with the need for one's own private existence...
...graduate schools is particularly reproachable since it is these schools that feed candidates into the applicant pool for junior faculty positions. The claim that women and minorities do not receive faculty appointments because there is such a paucity of qualified applicants is hypocritical when placed against the meager attempts to recruit women and minorities into the graduate programs and lower level positions...
...would do when his unemployment benefits--or, as the people at the unemployment office suddenly began referring to them, his un-unemployment benefits--ran out. He still didn't know if he would find work again. His wife continued to clip every coupon she could find, and his meager savings continued to dwindle...