Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receiving welfare. The bill has risen even faster: excluding social security and other Government insurance plans, the cost of welfare to all levels of government is $5.5 billion a year. Of this, the Federal Government pays a little more than half, the cities about 12%, and the states a third. Many of the cities, including local government in the suburbs, are discovering that welfare is threatening them with bankruptcy. In a little more than two years, New York City has added enough people to the rolls to constitute another Miami. Some 20,000 more are added each month...
...Third for the Chair. But the champagne (which the poet drinks exclusively) flowed on, and pretty girls flocked to him, like so many pigeons around the statue in Moscow's Pushkin Square. His poetry began to show the strain of his public posturings. Increasingly facile and bombastic, his work declined in quality in proportion to his rise as a political personality. It gave him some moments of self-doubt, as when he wrote...
Today Evtushenko is the focus of a controversy set off by the most inconsequential of events: his nomination last month for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford. Long-smoldering antagonisms to Evtushenko flamed into print during the balloting, and it was no matter that he finished third behind the winner, an English solicitor and minor poet, Roy Fuller. The attacks on him continued...
...bench is usually an impartial figure who sits above the battle. What happens when a group of judges doff their robes and themselves seek relief in the courts? It does not occur often, but just such a case arose in Michigan this year when the 27 judges of the Third Circuit Court brought a suit against Wayne County. They claimed that the county was illegally denying them enough clerks and probation officers to handle the heavy traffic in their circuit, which includes Detroit...
...third day of last week's meeting of intellectuals at Princeton, a student observer complained to a reporter that he hadn't learned anything new in the last 72 hours...