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...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...
...student was never reimbursed, and without a binding contract, was powerless to contest the injustice done. She resumed the summer in mid-July, $500 poorer...
...researchers recommend that the revenue raised from the tax be given back to residents living near the plants. Wilson said such a plan would be progressive because poorer people tend to live in areas with high rates of pollution...
Reluctance to approve new taxes in the face of overwhelming voter support for proposition 2 1/2, the continuing lobbying efforts of groups like Citizens for Limited Taxation, and the nonchalance of suburban legislators about helping older, poorer cities stave off the effects of big tax cuts will all slow action, perhaps until later April or May, Graham and others said...
...along 16th Street is largely black and upper middle class and stucco. But the city has more than its share of the ravages of poverty, a situation not improved after the riots of 1968, when "white flight" to tranquil McLean, Va., and such places left the city poorer...