Word: money
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...Money Game, 'Adam Smith...
Snow predicted that this "major catastrophe" would happen before the year 2000. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries...
Modest Yet Vigorous. Such measures would cost money-money that the Europeans, protected for nearly 20 years by the U.S. nuclear umbrella, have always been loath to spend. In his 16th and farewell appearance before the ministers, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk was as candid as Lemnitzer, telling the European partners that they must carry a greater share of the burden. Rusk and U.S. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford offered only an estimated $50 million in fresh U.S. aid. They also promised to return to Europe for maneuvers two infantry brigades and four tactical Air Force squadrons that had been...
...growing force in the Arab world today is that of the fedayeen, meaning "men of sacrifice." An estimated 24,000 strong, they are terrorists in the eyes of the Israelis, but daring commandos to admiring Arabs. Operating mainly from Jordan against Israeli-occupied territory, they are amply supplied with money and arms by sympathetic Arab businessmen, and command immense popular support, particularly among Jordan's 500,000 Palestinian refugees. As they constitute a virtual state-within-a-state, they are also a constant threat to Jordan's King Hussein...
...facts indicate that the Governor is wrong. The basic allowance for women with two children is about $50 per week. This money is meant to cover all of a family's needs. It just isn't enough, and to keep families going at all, an informal system of extra payments has developed. These extra payments are not for luxuries: they are an essential part of a welfare recipient's income. Now the money for these payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated...