Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rising standards of living in Third World countries could lead to enormous world population growth unless family planning programs receive strong support, Harvard population experts said yesterday at a symposium sponsored by the School of Public Health...
...sore spot for Harvard's public relations team was the requirement that all reporters seeking credentials to cover the event indicate their race on an application form. When one Brazilian newspaper answered "human" to the race question, the news office told the South Americans they would not receive credentials unless they completed the form accurately...
...took over half of Mexico's territory in 1848. These days Mexico is producing roughly a third of all the heroin and marijuana consumed in the U.S. It has become a transshipment point for 30% of the cocaine flown into the U.S. from Colombia and further south. Unless De la Madrid acts soon, Washington fears, official corruption, already widespread, will become even more deeply rooted. "How long does it take for drug dealers to penetrate the government?" asks Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams. "It doesn't take a month, but it doesn't take ten years either...
...dreams of youth. The film's four young friends -- sweet, smart Gordie (Wil Wheaton), take-charge Chris (River Phoenix), feisty Teddy (Corey Feldman) and fat Vern (Jerry O'Connell) -- are forever stopping in their tracks to proclaim, "I'm in the prime of my life," or "Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look after them." Does any twelve-year-old talk with such analysand self-awareness? The boys may be just scruffy outsiders in the small-town '50s, but they sound like a Classics Illustrated version of Bruno Bettelheim...
...play with toy trains know that a certain amount of snickering goes on behind their backs. It may be this lack of respect that drives a few hobbyists to play with full-size trains. You may rage at a plutocrat who swans around in his private railroad car, but unless you have one of your own, it is hard to sneer...