Word: vastness
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WELFARE. To many Americans, welfare payments are synonymous with HEW and its problems. Today the main components of federal welfare?Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?distribute more than $30 billion to some 30 million Americans. The vast program is unfair and inefficient. Benefits vary widely across the country, in part because the states share the cost of the program, and their contributions differ dramatically. A family of four in Mississippi, for instance, receives $60 a month; in New York, it would get $450. Fathers are encouraged to desert, since...
...expected to grow even faster in the future. Califano estimates that by the year 2010 real spending on benefits for people 65 and older will have tripled, to $350 billion a year. At the same time there will be fewer working Americans to provide the money on which the vast superstructure of assistance rests. Because of the declining birth rate, the ratio of working to retired people will shift from 6 to 1 today to 3 to 1 by 2030. Since not much more
...would turn over the four West German terrorists. But they also made clear that in return, Belgrade wanted action on longstanding extradition requests involving "Yugoslav citizens who had committed political terrorism against Yugoslavia." Specifically, they wanted eight Croatian nationalists who have sought political refuge in West Germany. Although the vast majority of the 20,000 or so Croatian emigres in the Federal Republic are politically inactive, there have been incidents in which Yugoslav diplomats were murdered, wounded or harassed by extremists demanding independence for Croatia...
...used to catch fish, spy on enemies, send signals, divine the weather, explore the atmosphere, photograph the earth, tow boats, advertise corsets, drop bombs and loft men and women into the wind. In the past decade the kite, the honorable ancestor of all aircraft, has colored American skies in vast numbers, dazzling hues, and sufficient shapes, sizes and forms to fill catalogs of bliss...
...Novelist James Carroll shapes it Brady wages his war against the fates over a vast and richly colored terrain, ranging rom the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s to the Kennedy era of the '60s. Brady plunges into the rebellion: he captains a bloody ambush and emerges as hero and cherished aide to the historical patriot Michael Collins, whose negotiating team he accompanies to England. But the resulting treaty triggers civil war at home, and Brady's family, save for infant Micko, is wiped out. Bitterly, Colman and son embark for America...