Word: povertyâ
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...countries expand their buying, lending and investing abroad. In stepping up their domestic development plans, they will have to enlarge their imports. This can be accomplished fairly easily by seven of the OPEC members: Iran, Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Nigeria, Algeria and Ecuador. They have relatively big populations and much poverty???hence much need for internal development. The huge problem is that six other, lightly populated Arab states?Saudi Arabia, Libya, Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar?are collecting far more money than they can possibly spend. These six, embracing only 9.3 million people, earned $54.7 billion from oil last year...
...dilettantism" of the young: "They think they're taking theology by taking courses in theology of the theater or theology of ecology." Together with a growing cadre of radicalized older Jesuits, many younger ones sharply criticize the order's acquisition of property at the expense of the freedom of poverty???the inhibiting burdens, for instance, of vast educational plants...
...boom is regenerated, it may not directly affect two persistent areas of poverty???seasonal unemployment in the fishing and wood-pulp industries, and the exclusion of the natives from the economy. But it would obviously benefit the economy generally, especially the real estate, construction, retail-trade and mineral-exploration industries. The key question is what Alaska will do with the cash that oil pays the state in leases and royalties. Alaskan Economist Arlon R. Tussing suggests that "the only way to guarantee that the money does any good to most of us is to hand it out to the people...
Rickets is a medical term for poverty???poverty of the bones. When the virtuous salts, retrieved by the body's chemistry from fruits and greens, course more slowly through the blood because of the languor of the heart in winter and the lack of sunlight, or are not present at all because fruits and greens have not been eaten, the bones are pinched with poverty. To make up for this, they swagger and falsely swell, while the sufferer falls off in flesh. The head becomes bulky; the barrel of the ribs warped; the sternum projects. Fever, sweating, temper, sensitiveness? that...
...Poverty, abject, miserable poverty???there you have it. And much unemployment, to make things worse. In addition to the flocks of beggars, there are many able-bodied men who are out of jobs, selling matches or newspapers on the streets for a few pfennigs...