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...sexual intercourse is limited or infrequent. Here we are at one point where premarital sexual experiments are radically misleading. Happiness in marriage depends on other factors. It depends on a love and a loyalty which can stand the long-range test for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health. No premarital relationship can test these things...
Known as El Lobo, the wolf, Vandor quickly proved his cunning against Framini. Using his own union as a base, he pumped funds into poorer unions to win friends and influence people. In a series of angry union fights, Vandor's supporters took over in more and more unions. By last May, Vandor was strong enough to beat Framini in an election for control of the Peronistas...
...result, many Indian merchants are now serving as $1-a-day clerks in the shops they once owned, and find themselves constantly being reprimanded by Burmese overseers. Their former employees are even worse off. Some 100,000 poorer Indians, who had worked for Indian storekeepers before nationalization, not only found themselves out of jobs but also out on the street as well, for most of them had lived above the shops in which they worked...
...world's rich and poor nations reached its final hours. For three months at the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place. At issue was how to improve the poorer nations' dwindling share of world trade. The underdeveloped bloc came up with a list of extravagant demands that would boggle even a sultan: preferential tariff treatment for their manufactured goods, abolition of all barriers against their raw material exports, high fixed commodity prices. Predictably, the wealthy nations...
...possibility suggested by both Tilly and Doebele is that local governments will begin to subsidize the rents of lower-income citizens in an effort to move families from public housing into the private market. They emphasized that private housing offers large opportunities for poorer families and that the freedom of the market will tend to aid integration...