Word: resulted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solar "bank" to subsidize and lower the interest charged by commercial institutions for loans to buy solar equipment. The Administration forecasts that the bank, which will have initial funding of $100 million, will result in more than 100,000 new solar units each year...
...drum up support for the treaty, the Administration had been mounting an elaborate lobbying effort for months. One recruit was Actor John Wayne. Just days before he died of cancer, Wayne sent a Mailgram message to every Congressman warning that defeat of the Administration's bill "could result in the closing of the canal, which would quite obviously cripple our shipping, our ports, our exporters, and consumers, not to mention our military strength...
...flow of refugees has become a torrent. They are currently fleeing Viet Nam at the rate of 65,000 a month, but are being permanently relocated at the rate of only 10,000 a month. Of these, about 7,000 a month are going to the U.S. The result is that the camps and resettlement areas of Southeast Asia are choked with more than 300,000 refugees. Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has called for an international conference on the plight of the refugees, and the subject is certain to be discussed at this week's summit...
...strategy of sharing power with the Christian Democrats in the so-called historic compromise. By pledging parliamentary support to the Christian Democrat-led coalition, the party had to share the blame for the government's failure to deal effectively with such problems as inflation and unemployment. As a result, working-class support for the Communists has fallen off, especially in the big cities...
...Even in Third World nations, where the incidence of disease remains chronically high, public health programs have resulted in a dramatic increase in life expectancy at birth, from just over 40 years in 1950 to 55 years now and a projected 63 years by 2000. At the same time, Third World birth rates are dropping, although they are still far above replacement level. This is not so in much of the First World: such countries as the U.S. and Japan are only slightly above zero population growth. The result: a "rising average age of the population and increasing proportions...