Word: subsistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...along. That is not the way it was supposed to be. The founding fathers not only expected them to work closely in tandem, they worried about it. During the debates at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry, who would become Vice President in 1813, complained: "The close intimacy that must subsist between the President and Vice President makes the relationship absolutely improper." To which Gouverneur Morris replied: "The Vice President then will be the first heir apparent that ever loved his father...
...million people who subsist below the $6500 adequate income level to work with 70 million people in the $5000 to $15,000 income range, we have a hypothetical majority of the population," he added...
...sufficiently filtered down to many blue-and white-collar workers and professionals, as well as elderly people living on wretched pensions. Nearly two-thirds of the country's 15 million workers earn less than $300 a month, while more than 2.5 million retired men and women subsist on a social security pension of $2.40 a day. Unemployment is increasing, the housing shortage has worsened for low-income families, and prices have risen 13% in the past two years. For millions, such gross inequalities seem to loom larger than the cold war specter of Communism...
...cage at the most notorious prison on Con Son island. "It smelled so foul at times that we wanted to die," she said. "When we asked for water, they dropped lime on us. It burned our skin and eventually blinded me." Prisoners who cannot buy their food from guards subsist on the prison diet of rice, salt and occasional dried fish...
...this country. How about some other statistics? Would you believe that Jews form the third largest poverty group in New York City, right after blacks and Puerto Ricans? Would you believe that there are some 300,000 Jews in New York City and approximately 900,000 nationwide who subsist at incomes below or near the federal poverty index? In fact I submit that the poor Jew's lot is worse than anyone else's, for "No one is poorer than the poor who is deemed to be rich...