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...instance, face greater discrimination than any other group. Yet through no fault of their own, the years of slavery shaped the Negro character in a way that contributes to their difficulties. In the slavery economy, they were never able to learn even the rudiments of business, unlike even the poorest Europeans, who learned how to market their produce. Today the Negroes save too little, spend too much, and have developed fewer businesses than any other group. There are also more broken Negro homes-another legacy of slavery, argue the authors, when Negro families were broken up at the whim...
Even if the "expanding enrollment clause" were dropped. Lee added, Harvard would probably not qualify for much money under the bill, since funds would be apportioned to states on a "poorest first" basis...
...Turkey will be by far the Market's poorest sister. Two-thirds of its 30 million people are illiterate, more than 10% of its work force is unemployed, and per capita income averages $200. Foreign trade, which swings around agriculture, is in chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under...
...Marwari," the Marwaris like to say, "gets business acumen in his mother's womb." Actually, the Marwaris more probably learned it by scratching for a grim living in the Marwar region, a desert area of rugged hills and parched climate that is one of India's poorest areas. To escape this fate, Marwaris began emigrating to the city three generations back, becoming small shopkeepers in Calcutta or Bombay. They work longer and harder than anyone else, lend a helping hand to each other (there are no Marwari beggars), and single-mindedly devote themselves to pursuing profit. Their guiding...