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Paradoxically, we felt a more excruciating responsibility for the acts of our nation then, as 19-year-olds who couldn't even vote, than we do now. We took things more personally. We felt that we were bombing Viet Nam, and we were allowing the poorer and less well connected of our generation to die there. Now, we say, it's the Reagan Administration that builds and occasionally drops bombs...
...transient although hardly less worthy than the British kind. Their lordships were created by the Sovereign, ours by Sam Goldwyn. Theirs try to be seen with the Queen, ours with Joan Rivers. What our crowd lacks in gravitas, it makes up in laughs. Nor has it produced a noticeably poorer class of peer. Both seem equally to enjoy the company of Koo Stark...
...Improving income opportunities for the lower ranges of income is tied to the development of smaller firms," said Steel, referring to the role smaller enterprises play in providing employment for poorer Africans...
...reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement itself may be responsible for some of that discrepancy...
Proponents of a law change say that more community residences need to be built because there is a large number of people being turned away from existing facilities. But residents have complained that homeless shelters should be distributed more evenly across the city and should not inundate primarily poorer areas...