Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outpouring of Hate. Often he felt duty bound to tell his audiences painful things because "there are no magic solutions, we are not magicians or Santa Clauses." In rural Ontario, he told prosperous farmers that their taxes would have to pay for programs in the poorer provinces. In British Columbia, where the shipyards have been hurt by foreign competition, Trudeau talked, instead, about Canada's low-income minorities. "What about the shipyards?" a heckler shouted. "What about the Indians and Eskimos?" Trudeau shot back, "Have you thought about them...
...deal with. Canada is beset by linguistic, cultural and economic differences that are exacerbated by the vast distances within the country. Its small population does not provide a large enough domestic market for a sustained economic boom. The income gap between the wealthy and the deprived, between the poorer and richer provinces, is still large and not shrinking fast enough...
Rich on $1,167 a Year. With its exploding population (increasing 3.4% a year) and depressed economy, Ecuador indeed needs action. "A rich man here," says Ecuador's retiring interim President, Otto Arosemena, "is poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into...
...dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this is not the trouble Jimmy will eventually cost this nation but the cost in terms of the loss. We in this nation cannot afford such waste. We are all the poorer because we have lost that little boy. To me, the cost of poverty is that, not the money we spend to sustain or help...
...last they are persuaded, and go off to conquer the world. It is not long, of course, before the world conquers them. Against photographer Raoul Coutard's haunted landscapes -interrupted by newsreel footage of atrocities and death - they loot and plunder, lifting skirts and wallets, but growing steadily poorer...