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...taxes were being reduced (a tax on movie tickets, for example, was abolished), the minimum wage was being raised from $22 to $28 a month, and prices of 77 basic commodities were being lowered. Such measures will hardly transform the lives of Egypt's 42 million citizens, who subsist on an average income of $300 a year while coping with an inflation rate of 35%. But coming at a time of foreign policy disappointments, the announcement may have bolstered Egyptian morale at a critical moment...
...suffering And suffering is action. Neither does the actor suffer Nor the patient act. But both are fixed In an eternal action, an eternal patience To which all must consent that it may be willed And which all must suffer that they may will it, That the pattern may subsist, for the pattern is the action And the suffering, that the wheel may turn and still Be forever still...
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...
...living may have been responsible for the branching out. Australopithecus africanus, straining to augment its food supply in the flat grasslands, began to eat meat?probably obtaining it not by hunting, but by scavenging the kills left behind by large predators. Australopithecus robustus, on the other hand, continued to subsist largely on seeds and nuts. Both eventually died out, unable to compete successfully with the large predators or with Homo. who was coming into...
...Indians, most of whom now reside on three reservations in northern Maine that cover 22,000 acres, subsist largely on low-paying jobs and welfare-like many whites. Originally, they demanded more than 10 million acres, or one-half of the state. But Justice puts the probable extent of their supportable claim at 5 million acres. Justice is still researching the historical ownership of some 3 million additional acres. The Indians agreed to put off claims to 2 million acres of valuable coastal property (where 40% of Maine's 1 million non-Indians live) in return for money...