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Leontief said that the world's poorer countries may be saved only by massive transfers of capital from the more developed countries. This transfer is impossible without reducing increases in defense spending, he added...
...main reason women seek work is that one paycheck is no longer enough. Women enter the work force to make up for lost purchasing power. When they lose their jobs their families are decidedly poorer. And this is what makes unemployment much worse for people than it appears to statisticians...
...that the evening was dull. After irate viewers had called NBC to complain, Chancellor apologized for noting, accurately as it happens, that Democrats are generally poorer and less well educated than Republicans: "If you're listening, Averell Harriman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan of Harvard, I hope you'll forgive me." CBS'S Dan Rather tried to brighten the proceedings with some well-honed metaphors. Assessing Gerald Ford's uncertain prospects in the Midwest, Rather declared: "You can pour water on the fire and call in the dogs, because the hunt will be over...
There's no reason to think the sport as a whole won't be able to adjust, but that's not much consolation to the poorer teams. The Orioles operate under the tightest budget in the major leagues, but still need to make the playoffs to do more than break even. They're doomed because they have never, and will never, draw more than 1.2 million fans...
Though Davis paid $60 a month for a single room in Paraguay, he found that even the poorer families and houses had maids. "It's less expensive to work and hire somebody to take care of the house than to stay home and get no pay," he explains...