Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile, the Bazargan government survives by the grace of Khomeini, who spends his days in Qum receiving petitioners and issuing...
Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year...
Tuberculosis strikes all segments of society, but hardest among the poor who live in crowded, unsanitary conditions and subsist on inadequate diets. While the annual rate is only about 14 cases per 100,000 among the population as a whole, in Harlem, for example, it climbs to about 64 per 100,000. Alcoholics and drug addicts are especially vulnerable because their immune systems may have been weakened. Found in the bodies of about 7% of the populace, the bug makes only a small proportion of them...
...researchers suggest an obvious answer: poor sexual communication between men and women rests on the assumption, shared by both sexes, that men are natural leaders and experts in sex and therefore must be doing the right thing. "The burden of sexual performance is on the man," says Johnson, "the burden of trying to guess when she's interested, what she wants, how she wants it, and so on." Adds Masters: "What we have established in this book is that the male will have to give up his position as sex expert and the one with the greater sexual facility -which...
There did not appear to be any such problems for the J.V. except for its poor start, as it came back from the scare in Philadelphia to win big, like J.V. lights are supposed to Captain and J.V. six seat Jeff Cooley felt that the crew's smooth settle was the "crucial thing...