Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another: "We've got to find a way to bring the second-and third-level people on board this train." Several of the Cabinet officers grumbled privately at the request to evaluate their assistants. Said one Cabinet staffer: "This could be an opportunity for the secretaries to give poor grades to the very people the White House pushed in here...
...biggest single expenditure in the federal budget last year, $170 billion, went not for defense or education or interest on the national debt, but for transfer payments−that is, tax money Washington takes from working Americans and gives to citizens who are retired, ill or poor. Daniel H. Brill, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, reports that transfer payments (Medicare, unemployment insurance, veterans and other federal pensions and the like) have risen from 6.5% or 7% of the national income in the early 1960s to 13% or 14% in recent years...
...synonym for progressive action−and frequently radicalism−in the Latin American church. Under the banner of the "theology of liberation," many priests, nuns and lay people used an unusual synthesis of Marxian economic analysis and biblical theology to align the church with the continent's poor. The theology has had its price: for trying to put it into practice, more than 800 Latin American clerics have been jailed, kidnaped, expelled or, in some cases, killed since...
Critics condemn the working paper as a retreat to old-fashioned churchly paternalism and complain that it plays down Latin America's social and economic ills. In one section, for instance, the poor are promised the consolations of faith, which will allow them "to live in fortitude and enjoy that happiness of the kingdom of which no human sorrow can deprive them." Another section, clearly aimed at clerical activists, declares that "priests, monks and nuns should not under normal circumstances participate in political struggle." The theme of the Puebla conference is how to evangelize an increasingly urbanized society...
...unrealistic, especially where repressive regimes almost cry out for some sharp judgments. Brazil's bishops, for example, seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from Rome, without a struggle...