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...most popular form of population control in developing countries is sterilization. Some 98 million women and 35 million men around the world have resorted to that permanent solution. The other current mainstay is abortion, which the Worldwatch Institute's Brown called "a reflection of unmet family- planning needs." An estimated 28 million abortions are performed in Third World nations annually, and an additional 26 million in industrial countries. About half are illegal...
...Last year, there were a number of unmet needs: we needed a shelter for women, more family transitional housing, more day programs, more child care, more meals for families, additional funds to assist homeless individuals and families in making downpayments on permanent apartments, and access to medical and mental health programs," said Philip F. Mangano, emergency services coordinator with the city's Department of Human Service Programs (DHSP...
...opposition and severely limited their room for maneuver. As Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank points out, "The deficit is a great constrainer. If we had another $50 billion to spend, we would argue over how to spend it." From Dukakis on down, the Democratic gospel still includes ritual phrases like "unmet national needs" and "reorienting our priorities." But there is a hollowness to this rhetoric that reflects the barrenness of the federal cupboard. How could any Democrat today have the temerity to propose anything as grandiose as a Great Society when the funds are barely available to maintain an Adequate Society...
...Research Institute. "When it became evident in January 1987 that the Central Committee would not accept some of his changes, he stepped back and organized a party conference to get them through." Even so, most analysts warned that Gorbachev's success in winning institutional reform only underscored the largely unmet challenges of economic perestroika (restructuring). The conference featured several speeches by delegates complaining about the inadequacy of food supplies and the poor quality of housing under the present system...
David W. Fraser, president of Swarthmore College, will speak on the topic "Unmet Needs and Unused Skills: Physicians Reflections on Their Undergraduate Education...