Word: poore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young, minorities and the disabled, you see some serious problems." These problems are masked because the figures lump together all 8.8 million veterans of the Viet Nam era, and fewer than one-third of them actually went to Viet Nam. Those who did tended to be the blacks, the poor and the less educated. One million of them have not been able to find jobs that keep them fully employed. Of the Viet Nam-era veterans who joined the armed forces without completing high school, half have not chosen to continue their education...
Senior captain Gordie Gardiner expects that the poor start will provide the Bruins with an extra incentive to nail the Crimson. "They are in a make it or break it situation. They have the potential and are going to be coming at us early, so we have to shut them down early," Gardiner says...
Second, Stevens exploitation of its work force means lower wages, poor health and safety conditions, tiny pentions--in short, Stevens is cheaper because of the same factors leading to the boycott. Neither Federated nor Allied have ever shown a desire to sell Stevens goods at a price comparable to that charged by other textile companies...
...performed. Moreover, there are loopholes in the law and liberal as well as strict interpretations of it. For example, a thief can lose his hand only if he steals "in a just society"; the provision has been used by Islamic courts to spare men who steal because they are poor and have no other means to feed their families...
...That year, in Furman vs. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment, as Justice Potter Stewart put it, "in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." It had been applied "wantonly" and "freakishly"-most often against poor blacks. But four years later, the court approved new capital punishment laws designed by individual states to be less arbitrary. Typically, the laws allow juries to hand down a death sentence only after weighing "aggravating circumstances," such as the murder of a police officer or the torture of a victim...