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...least for a time. After World War II, the United States led the way in developing the United Nations, in supporting international organizations and agreements of many kinds, in upholding international law, proposing limits on atomic weapons, promoting freer trade and--not least--in giving generously to help poorer nations through the Marshall Plan. the Point Four program and other initiatives of a similar kind...
...kept abreast of the full cost of college tuitions and expenses," says Sarah Melendez, associate director for the Office of Minority Concerns at the American Council on Education (ACE). Because of recessions that have put more minorities beneath the poverty line, she says, today "you have a poorer population trying to pay a higher price with fewer dollars...
Instead, Clendenning said the Americans who created "Amerika" made the enemy in their own image. He claimed that rather than presenting typically Soviet characters, the film "indicates to Americans that the Russians are just like us, only a little poorer and a little more paranoid...
...more than eight out of ten people remain illiterate. In short, Haiti shows no sign of shaking off its sad burden of being the most impoverished nation in the hemisphere. "The social situation has worsened," warns Leslie Manigat, a Haitian political scientist and presidential hopeful. "The poor are getting poorer...
...course, the premise of the anticolorizing purists is correct. Even if you don't watch junk, the sheer weight of mass-produced junk, in the end, flattens and debases the culture and leaves you poorer. The market does shape demand. In a mass culture of such power, the very presence of junk corrupts, like secondhand smoke...