Word: occurs
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...whisper) anyone who ventures to doubt the desirability and necessity for total freedom in our country (meaning, in all probability, freedom not for everyone but certainly for the favored few). But we wait for this freedom to fall to our lot like some sudden, unexpected miracle that will occur without any effort on our part. We ourselves are doing nothing to gain this freedom. Never mind the old traditions of supporting people in political trouble, feeding the fugitive, sheltering the passportless or the homeless (we might lose our state-controlled jobs). Day after day, the Moscow intellectual labors conscientiously, sometimes...
...enormously in recent years, and so have sex-related problems. According to studies conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, three out of every ten teen-agers who have had sexual intercourse have at least one out-of-wedlock pregnancy; three-quarters of all teen-age pregnancies occur outside marriage. Even if the baby and mother come through the pregnancy in good physical health, the odds are that the immature mother and the unwanted infant will emerge from the experience with serious psychological scars...
Congress should enact the long-awaited strip-mining bill to help increase coal production from the present 600 million tons per year to 1 billion tons. The growth would occur, as the bill now stands, in regions where the land can be reclaimed after surface mining: mainly the Midwest and Appalachia. Reclaiming the arid stretches of the West would be more difficult. In the meantime, underground mining, which is the only way to extract most of the nation's 1.3 trillion tons of coal, should be expanded by using advanced technology: machines that continuously bore or shave seams...
...food crisis today is described by some futurologists in apocalyptic terms. Some kind of black death or brown is imminent. Famine, starvation, rebellion occur; the synthesis of progress based on energy, trade, and capital is broken by new (old) resource imperialisms, expropriations and capital shortages with rising costs of debt. We despair of the conditions for living...
...Conference is a serious effort to keep the system going as it is; a United Nations hope that some kink of dialogue can occur between Western and non-Western elites. Its results can at best only stem tides of hunger, joblessness, malnutrition, and the institutional paralysis that are the fruits of development to this point for the poor. There is a difference that can be made however, and an alternative future that can be shared more equally with the Third World. Perhaps, if the Food Conference helps Americans to see this necessity, it will have proven useful at least...