Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none of the above should detract too much from Seeger's considerable artistry. He has a poor voice and poorer diction, but neither failing seems to bother him, and if it bothers his listeners they can go elsewhere. He has in his favor a completely ingratiating manner--which natuarally comes across better in person--and tremendous skill with banjo and guitar. This ability is heard to best advantage on dance tunes like Old Dan Tucker and The Blue Tailed...
...made threatening noises about compulsory savings. To employers he talked of production norms and price ceilings. When unemployment topped 1,500,000, he beat off a censure move in the Bundestag by a scant majority. "Your policy," jeered Socialist Erik Nolting, "only makes the rich richer and the poor poorer...
...Poor Get Poorer. The upsurge, Davis explained, was caused not by a rise in birth rates but by a drastic fall in death rates. Its most worrisome aspect is that the increase has occurred primarily in underdeveloped countries where U.S. and U.N. public health programs have warred on such diseases as malaria, endemic syphilis and yaws. In Ceylon, for example, the death rate has tumbled 34% in one year, 70% in ten years. Populations promptly shot up, since birth rates in most of these nations remain at their traditionally high level...
...road was close enough never to be a joke, dirty or otherwise, to him. He feels that this most celebrated of his books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father of four (the youngest is twelve), Caldwell will publish a children's book this fall, Molly...
...office), it had been obvious to all that Britain's legislators were grossly underpaid. The pay scale of M.P.s was determined originally on the theory that they were gentlemen of means-as they originally were, before laboring men (some of whom now get supplementary pay from unions) and poorer Tories came to dominate the House...