Word: poore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of the arena's poor lighting and yellowish tint, the ice emitted a strange glow that reflected off the yellow uniforms of the Clarkson players...
...could make us feel better about ourselves when we were not, in fact, any better. Jackson is right. The gap between rich and poor has expanded under Reagan, and it has become commonplace to find homeless, working families. The portion of the population that lives under the poverty level grew from 11 percent in 1980 to 13.6 percent in 1987; the percentage of children under the poverty level jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent in the same period...
Thanks to Reagan's tax cuts, the rich were able to fill their garages with Porsches. Meanwhile, the poor were watching their streets become battle grounds, drug lord squaring off against drug lord. While the average person in the top two quintiles of income got wealthier during the Reagan era, the rest of the country got poorer...
...overdraft than those Reagan requested and got in earlier years, when he blamed Democrats for the deficit. It calls for a $4 billion hike in defense spending, $10 billion cuts in programs that mainly benefit the middle class and a $4 billion jump in Government efforts to assist the poor. There are some wildly optimistic assumptions, such as the forecast that over the next year interest rates will fall a whopping 2.7 percentage points...
...year moratorium on the American manufacture of chemical weapons, the Soviet Union acceded to U.S. demands for on-site "challenge inspections" to enforce a treaty. Today the larger obstacle is posed by Third World nations that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British weapons expert, "and that he can get from a quiet lab in a back street of Tripoli." Thus even if a treaty could be hammered...