Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...members of the Peoples Temple put on a marvelous performance for their visitors. Reporters were led past the central, open-air pavilion, used as both a school and an assembly hall. The visitors saw the newly completed sawmill, the 10,000-volume library, the neat nursery, where mosquito netting protected babies sleeping peacefully on pallets. The colony hospital had delivered 33 babies without a single death, the tour guides said...
...come to take for granted. So department by department, determined Administration budget cutters are now looking everywhere for places to slash, and they are finding the slashing hard. Says an Office of Management and Budget senior official: "This has got to be one of the toughest budgets in the past 20 years...
...buying? What's the real effect?' " The ax is poised over three departments in particular: Health, Education and Welfare, HUD and Labor. They will spend $214.3 billion in fiscal 1979, or about 44% of the current $491.6 billion federal budget. Their spending, moreover, has increased in the past few years. Outlays for what is defined as "education, training, employment and social services" have jumped from $21 billion in fiscal 1977 to an estimated $30.4 billion this year. Even though public school enrollment has been declining in most parts of the country, the Office of Education budget has risen from...
...thousands, from dawn to well past nightfall, residents of Peking last week thronged the capital's Wang Fu Ching Street, site of the city's People's Daily headquarters. Jostling one another for view, some making notes, they avidly scanned an eight-sheet wall poster that had been put up on the street and signed by, of all people, an auto mechanic in a nearby garage. In a society where the wall poster is the semiofficial harbinger of political shifts and cultural upheavals, the document on Wang Fu Ching Street was undeniably momentous. As part...
...bureau estimates that the overall rate by which world population has been increasing annually declined by about 5% in the past decade, from an average hike of 1.98% a year in the 1965-70 period to 1.88% in the 1975-77 interval. Significantly, there were slowdowns not only in Western countries, where birth rates have long been declining, but also in such Third World countries as Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea and apparently China. Even India seems to have achieved a slight slowdown. By contrast, Kenya, Algeria, Tanzania and Nigeria had increased growth rates...