Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President requested $500 million in federal programs, a boost of 10% over present outlays, to help "provide a standard of living for Indians equal to that of the country as a whole." Items would cover 10,000 Indian children under Head Start, set up a "model community school system," pay for 2,500 new houses a year, allocate $112 million in health projects, provide 600 more health aides in Indian communi ties, spend $22.7 million on community-action schemes and $25 million on concentrated employment plans and vocational training, organize a $500 million revolving-loan guarantee and insurance fund...
...effect, practically turns an ordinary rifleman into a machine gunner. Some firearm experts consider it superior to the U.S. M16, which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes pay it the ultimate compliment by picking it up and using it themselves when they find one on a battlefield...
...fifth as large as New York City's Central Park. One-half mile long and barely one-half mile wide, it serves mostly as a fishermen's stopover and a smugglers' base. Once a year pilgrims from Ceylon and India come to the island to pay homage to its patron saint, St. Anthony, in a tiny church that measures only 12 ft. by 14 ft. and can hold at most 100 worshipers. Last week Kachcha Tivu, Tamil words that mean barren island, gained a measure of international prominence by becoming the center of one of history...
Palace. Not even massed charges by Cairo's formidable mounted police could deter them. In the end, they agreed to call off the riots only when the government promised to retry the negligent officers and pay more heed to such student demands as greater freedom for Egypt's heavily censored press...
...stop the decline. Thirty years ago, his country was ranked among the world's developed nations; today, the World Bank classifies it as underdeveloped. The economy is only inching along, and unemployment is up to 8%. The state-owned railroads are losing $1,000,000 a day. To pay its bills and meet its huge deficits, the government is constantly printing more money and, in turn, inflating an already bloated cost of living-now rising by 28% a year. Only the second lowest population growth rate in Latin America (1.6%) and one of the highest abortion rates...