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They say it is the fatal destiny of Ireland that no purposes whatever which are meant for her good will prosper or take effect...
...jarring note in Mahmud's success story is that he now has eleven children and his wife is pregnant once more. Egyptian leaders are fighting to limit families. In doing so, they must dispel a traditional Arab conviction that many sons must be born for a family to prosper, because so many die of childhood diseases. Thanks to a growing system of state-run clinics in rural areas, the high fatality rate is declining. With support from more progressive Islamic leaders, the government has set up birth control clinics, where a month's supply of the Pill...
...that these proposals are far-reaching and controversial. They go to the very essentials of the way we govern ourselves. [But] I believe that these measures only restore the constitutional process to that state in which they were intended to function, and that if we are to survive and prosper as a Republic, Congress must resume its role as a coequal branch of Government...
DETROIT LIKE most urban areas is a doughnut city. The white flight to the suburbs has produced metropolitan centers in which lily-white rings surround black cores. While the suburbs prosper, sucking off more and more of society's wealth, the inner city, predominantly black, is left to wallow in poverty. America is becoming, or has already become, what Disraeli termed "two nations," in our case one white and rich, the other black and poor, each unable to bridge the gap of polarization...
Petroleum U.N. Exxon may draw fire because it is in the lead, but it draws strength from its position as the industry's tough and durable old tiger. If the ultimate test of any organization is ability to grow and prosper amid wrenching changes, no organization has been more successful than Exxon. For 111 years, the business that has been variously known as the Standard Oil Trust, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Esso and now Exxon has survived wars, expropriations, brutalizing competition, muckraking attacks and even dismemberment by the U.S. Supreme Court (in 1911). It has not only survived...