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Already the OPEC countries have been the recipients of by far the greatest international transfer of capital in history. Because many nations are becoming poorer while the oil exporters become richer?and much of the oil money is neither spent nor placed in long term deposits or investments?the huge transfer of wealth threatens to choke the international monetary system and strangle world trade...
...success of The Waltons has created a new television genre that might be termed extended family entertainment. These are shows that encourage the members of the modern nuclear family (all 3.4 of them) to gather round the electronic hearth and envy the lot of the poorer but more populous rural families of yesteryear. The prairie families are envisioned by television as infinitely more caring, more loving and free of neurosis than we dare hope to be. Pop, who is nearly always out of work and thus has a lot of time on his hands, is always willing to explain anything...
...half before Dark was ousted for insubordination-he incensed Finley by refusing to fire a player for using obscenities in public that Dark had not overheard. From Kansas City, he went to Cleveland where he was once again dismissed. Among the reasons: poor press relations and an even poorer won-lost record...
...struggle to keep the territories has nearly wrecked Portugal. The poorest nation in all of Europe-poorer even than the Communist regimes of the East, with the probable exception of Albania-Portugal has nonetheless allotted more of its national budget to the Africa fighting for the past 13 years than to any other project. As a result, the home country has gone without essential improvements in roads, schools and just about everything else a modern economy needs. Nearly 2 million people have violated restrictions against emigration to find jobs in other countries or to escape the mandatory four-year tour...
...lined with the old, deteriorating shops and grocery stores owned by the mestizos (people of mixed white and Indian blood). Most of the real activity, however, takes place not in these dusty little buildings, but in the streets themselves. Everyday the Indian peasants, who live higher up in the poorer sections of the city, make the long, strenuous climb down into this commercial sector, where they spread their small supply of goods or produce out in front of them on the uneven stones of the streets. As the dark early morning sky begins to lighten, the quarter is slowly transformed...