Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disclosing his major legislative plans for the coming year. Nor were there any eloquent phrases; that is simply not his style. Conservatives could grumble about his revived talk of creating "voluntary" restraints on wages and prices. Liberals could complain that many of his populist campaign calls for aiding the poor and rebuilding the cities had apparently vanished...
After Carter signs the order, he will ask Congress to enact it, giving it the permanency of law. It is expected to encounter little opposition despite the rising concern in Washington about Turner. Some senior advisers to Carter regard him as a poor manager of people and somewhat overweening. But they believe that another change at the top would only further damage the CIA, which has had five directors in five years. Still, by getting a new charter for all U.S. intelligence activities written into law, the Administration hopes to make spy operations more orderly and efficient, and keep them...
...machinations that fencers and coaches go through to direct poor, misguided--to say nothing of short-sighted--directors vary from the subtle to the tactless...
...GOVERNMENT needs to take a renewed interest in preserving the small, family farmer, who is suffering not because of his inability to produce as efficiently as a farm of 8000 acres, but because of his inability to absorb the losses resulting from a poor harvest. An insurance company investing in agriculture as a sideline can readily cover its short-term losses with profits from other areas of its business. The agricultural strike now in progress is a cry of frustration from small farmers being pushed out of business by corporate farms with greater financial resources. According to the U.S. Agricultural...
...west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions are ripe and they leave at the end of the harvest. Because they are constantly on the move, migrant children receive inadequate, often fragmented educations. Homeless, helpless and poor, the migrant worker provides the back-breaking labor needed to harvest much of the food on America's tables...