Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working men suffer 80 per cent fewer heart attacks than retired men of the same age, a team of Harvard researchers concluded in a report published recently...
...House bill improves on the present system by requiring every state after Oct. 1, 1981 to provide welfare for two-parent families without income 65 per cent of the Census Bureau's official minimum subsistence level. That amounts to about $4650 a year for a family of four in 1979 dollars. The new rule would raise the payments to about 800,000 families in 13 states, mainly in the South and Southwest. Under present welfare rules, only single-parent families with dependent children receive aid, a system that encourages the break-up of marriages, some experts say. The House bill...
Less than 5 per cent of the respondents said they favored deportation of Iranian students. "All students should be politically immune," one said...
Nearly half of the students said the crisis would have a significant impact on Carter's chances in the presidential election. Thirty-eight per cent felt the situation would have little effect, while 11 per cent remained undecided...
Imports of Iranian oil amount to about 7 per cent of all U.S. imports, or about 4 per cent of total American consumption...