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...reason for the generalized embarrassment is the sheer magnitude of the funds involved. In recent years, the worldwide explosion of oil prices has sent hundreds of billions of dollars cascading into some of the poorest nations on earth. These countries have set out on instant-industrialization programs and often spend money as quickly as it is earned...
Although it is the poorest nation in the Community-per capita income is roughly $4,000 a year-Greece now is far from being destitute. Real growth since 1973 has averaged more than 3%, a better track record than that of most Western European countries; unemployment last year was just...
...have to find alternate ways to work. As for the merchants, there is more to life than buying socks. Boston residents use the T on Sundays to get to church, to visit museums or basketball games, to see friends. An end to Sunday service is directed at them, the poorest people in the metropolitan area, and not at the suburbanites who retreat to their station wagons for the weekend anyway...
...Money, blankets, and other goods must reach the population as soon as possible," he said, adding, "In many towns, people have lost everything. The area is one of the poorest in Italy, and much of it is high in the mountains. Snow will be coming soon. Without help, I don't know how people will survive...
Anderson's biggest claim to voters--that he alone has the guts to tell them what they don't want to hear--holds true to a certain extent. But his oldest call for sacrifice, the 50-cent-a-gallon gas tax, will mean real pain only for the poorest. And his recent moderation suggests that Anderson has come a little too near the White House, near enough that fantasies of actually becoming president have trimmed his sails and forced caution upon...