Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CARE World Hunger Fund began a program last week that will give Americans a chance to do their bit toward easing the famine that is killing thousands of people a day and causing half a billion to suffer from malnutrition around the world. Called the Empty Plate campaign, the plan asks Americans to give up, or reduce, one meal per week for the rest of the year and send the money saved to CARE...
...rules make the importer assume the burden of proof. All but a few of the world's thousands of vertebrate species are considered to be "potentially dangerous" until the importer shows otherwise. But laboratories, zoos and the pet industry will not suffer unduly; the new rules award carte blanche visas to an elite of "low risk" animals. These include 400 kinds of fish (mostly tropical species for collectors), 60 birds (mainly game fowl), 43 mammals (lab monkeys, plus zebras, aardvarks and other common zoo animals), and two amphibians (the horned and dwarf-clawed frogs). The result will be less...
...both per capita and median family income. But its tradition of politically powerful counties has tended to emphasize local rule to the detriment of that wielded from the statehouse in Trenton, and New Jersey has paid a high price for its localism. Higher education, public health and mental institutions suffer from inadequate funding. The state bears only 28.7% of the cost of local education, compared with the national average of 43%. Half the public money spent in the state is raised at the local level, primarily through real estate taxes. Affluent towns end up with the lion's share...
...crux of the Middle East crisis," Yafeh says. "They've never cared about the Palestinians. The whole refugee problem was caused by Arab aggression in 1947, and the Arab states have subsequently used the refugee camps as political weapons. It's sad, but as a result of that, people suffer...
...believe there are more grounds for agreement than disagreement." Al Ullman, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and a key Democratic strategist, sounded the same conciliatory note. "We must find a way to avoid confrontation. If Congress and the Executive get into a hassle, this country will suffer...