Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born amid bureaucratic fumbles and intense infighting. Two months after his Inauguration he set up a committee composed chiefly of six Cabinet members, headed by Harris, to work out the policy. Harris and HEW Secretary Joseph Califano were immediately at loggerheads. He favored programs that would directly help poor people no matter where they live; she wanted to get money into distressed urban areas. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, who was opposed to any idea that would reduce tax revenues, resisted proposed tax cuts or incentives for businesses located in distressed areas (Carter finally overruled him). To make matters worse...
JOBS. The Federal Government will offer tax breaks, subsidies and other inducements for businesses to remain in poor neighborhoods, to set up plants in them or expand existing ones. As a further incentive, a National Development Bank, nicknamed Urbank, will be created to offer the businesses low-interest loans...
...seat in 1970, roly-poly Charles Coles Diggs Jr.. 55, has been the senior black member of Congress. The son of a powerful Michigan politician who became wealthy as an undertaker in Detroit, Diggs has won election to the House twelve times from the city's predominantly poor and black 13th Congressional District. Because of his seniority, he became the first chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971. He is also chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee and the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa...
...Hemingway, Fitzgerald did not need hostile critics. The most famous act of unkindness occurred in 1936, when Scott publicized his torment in "The Crack-Up," an article in Esquire. Later that year, Hemingway published The Snows of Kilimanjaro in the same magazine. The story contained a gratuitous reference to "poor Scott Fitzgerald" and that famous line from The Rich Boy, "The very rich are different from you and me." The reply is often assumed to have been Hemingway's: "Yes they have more money." At Fitzgerald's request, his name was deleted and "Julian" substituted in later editions...
...Giscard, but to one another. Communist Party Boss Georges Marchais claimed that the left's score would have been higher had the Socialists agreed to Communist proposals for updating the left's Common Program, including a sweeping nationalization of industry. Mitterrand offered his own explanation for the poor showing: "The Communist Party, acting in its own partisan interests, had launched an unjust and inopportune polemical attack on the Socialists that broke the dynamism of the union of the left...