Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could occur in the next 20 years-with disastrous effects for the U.S. Writes Linowitz in his accompanying letter to the President: "A hungry world is an unstable world ..." The report goes a step further: "The most potentially explosive force in the world today is the frustrated desire of poor people to attain a decent standard of living. The anger, despair and often hatred that result represent a real and persistent threat to international order." What is more, notes the study, the world's economy is going to suffer if today's poor countries do not increase their...
...religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came a widening gap between rich and poor, a dangerous ambivalence of rising expectations and an anxiety that old ways might be endangered. The resentment of modernization is not anything so simply and piously self-abnegating as a wish to avoid luxury; it is also a bitterness at being forced to live adjacent to a wealth one cannot possess...
...billion to perhaps as much as $40 billion in 1980. Developing nations would be hurt worst, since many of them have no exports of real value to count on at all. Their debts, which already total some $300 billion, would swell by perhaps another $60 billion, requiring poor nations to borrow yet more billions...
...poor, help with heat...
...third, or $25 million, into an escrow account to be administered by the DOE to "provide relief to economically disadvantaged people in meeting their energy expenses for this winter." These funds will supplement the $1.35 billion in Government grants that Congress has appropriated to help the poor pay their heating bills...