Word: meet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more personal level, concern about paying bills has risen, as has anxiety about the inability to save for the future. Nearly half of those questioned reported having to dip into what savings they have to make ends meet. More than one-third have trimmed their gifts to charity because of higher living costs. Twenty-one percent say they have taken second jobs, and 32% of the men say their wives have gone out to work to bring in extra money...
...temporary reprieve when the INS extended their departure deadline in order to let them harvest their crops. A second reprieve came when Senator Lloyd Bentsen, at the urging of the Seminole community, introduced a special bill into Congress on their behalf. It stated that although the Mennonites did not meet existing INS conditions for immigration (such as relatives already in the country or job skills that Americans do not have), they should be allowed to stay...
...Mennonites got their first crop in, but it was not much of a crop. For one, oil companies owned the water rights to the greater part of their land, and that limited their ability to irrigate. They could not meet a $225,000 mortgage payment. This month the ranch was put up at public auction, and former Owner Dennis Nix and his bank bought it back for $1,151,000. After losing most of their life savings, the Mennonites still face deportation, since it is considered doubtful that Bentsen's bill will pass...
...they will undoubtedly alter British policy in the direction of support for Muzorewa and Smith. Some Tory advisers have pointed out that Britain's relations with its African allies, notably Nigeria, could be jeopardized by an abrupt change in policy on Rhodesia. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers are scheduled to meet in Zambia later this year. If the African members should still be angry with Mrs. Thatcher at that time, they could embarrass her greatly by deciding upon some kind of retaliation, such as an attempt to expel Britain from the British Commonwealth...
...delegation, the first China has sent to the United States in the social sciences, will meet in individual sessions with faculty from a broad range of fields...