Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, in part because the states share the cost of the program, and their contributions differ dramatically. A family of four in Mississippi, for instance, receives $60 a month; in New York, it would get $450. Fathers are encouraged to desert, since AFDC payments generally go to single-parent families. If welfare mothers choose to work full time, they stand to lose many of their benefits. Fraud is endemic. Welfare officials in New York City estimate that at least 20% of AFDC
After campaigning on a pledge to tidy up the welfare mess, Carter ordered Califano to produce a plan last year. Califano's complex proposal would consolidate grants and try to give needy families a regular basis of support: a single-parent family of four could count on $4,200. Califano's plan would also try to help people help themselves. Welfare mothers would be able to keep more of their benefits if they went to work, and 1.4 million public service jobs would be made available for low-income people...
...come by. It extends at least back to 1938, when Americans brought in Saudi Arabia's first oil well. Four American oil companies later formed the Arabian-American Oil Company (Aramco), which eventually developed Saudi Arabia into the world's pre-eminent petroleum power. Through negotiations with the parent companies, the Saudi government has gradually acquired 60% of Aramco and will eventually purchase the remainder, but it still has more than 2,600 American employees. Of the $142 billion that Saudi Arabia will spend during its current five-year plan, nearly half will go to American companies. Riyadh has invested...
...parents to keep the kids from dragging them into court on similarly vague grounds? Henry Foster, professor emeritus at New York University Law School, offers cold comfort to mothers and fathers: "It used to be that the King, parent, hospital and so forth could do no wrong. This is changing...
...doubt the U.S.'s Eximbank will make loans to SIA, and that may cause a touch of embarrassment for both Boeing and United Technologies, the parent of Pratt & Whitney. Only last month executives of both companies blasted Eastern Air Lines' $778 million purchase of 19 European-made A300 Airbuses, charging that the deals had been "unfairly subsidized" by the German, French and Spanish governments. Boeing never had strong grounds for complaint anyway-it accounts for more than half of all commercial plane sales in the non-Communist world. To keep up with traffic growth and meet noise...