Word: meres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pass 4 million by Election Day 1976. Black registration now runs less than ten percentage points below that of voting-age whites. Increased black registration has given blacks a larger share of political offices ?but only up to a point. As recently as 1970 there were a mere 565 black elected officials in the eleven states of the old Confederacy. By 1976 that number had more than tripled, to 1,847. Impressive enough, but that is only 2.3% of a total of 79,381 elective jobs in the South and falls far short of the 20.5% black share...
...Florida, South America and the Caribbean, the manatee (or sea cow) was once regarded as the answer to the water hyacinths; each was believed to consume as much as 100 lbs. of the hyacinths a day. But placed in weed-clogged waters, the manatee ate its way through a mere 40 lbs. of the damnable plant daily. The hulking, hairless creatures, who may have helped inspire the mermaid legend (their mammaries faintly resemble those of a woman), also find it difficult to coexist with power boats. University of Miami biologists report that about 20% of all manatees found dead each...
Such frustration is the rule for Southern unionists. All eleven states of the old Confederacy have right-to-work laws that allow employees to stay out of the union in organized plants; only nine non-Southern states do. A mere 14.1% of Southern non-farmworkers are members of unions, less than half the national average...
...stand, Frix piles the produce into his pickup truck and drives north to Atlanta's Farmers Market, sometimes sleeping in the truck for several nights until all the peaches and vegetables are sold. Last year his total sales came to $16,100, out of which he netted a mere $3,720. Outlays for sprays, seed and fertilizer ate up $10,000 his two aging tractors cost another...
Judy economizes wherever she can. The family's grocery bill averages a mere $25 a month. "We never buy meat," she explains. "LG hunts deer, squirrels and wild rabbits I make everything I can: butter, buttermilk, cream, preserves catsup and applesauce. We have all the fresh vegetables we want...