Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...establishment (v. 10% for the U.S., which has, however, a gross output twice as large). But at the same time, the long-neglected Russian consumer is coming in for a larger slice of the new and bigger economic pie. A Russian who has the money no longer has to wait for weeks to buy a TV set or a simple household convenience such as a refrigerator. In anticipation of 50th-anniversary celebrations planned for this fall, shops in the major cities are filled with colorful merchandise of fair to high quality. The regime is even doing something for those millions...
...Newark, the riot brought a spate of programs in its wake. The N.A.A.C.P. is launching a massive voter-registration drive, which could give the city, with a majority Negro population, a Negro mayor within a few years. (Some delegates to the black power conference did not want to wait that long, announced that they would seek a special election to recall Addonizio and elect a Negro.) The business community formed a committee to seek financial help for merchants whose shops were destroyed. Some 60 whites and Negroes established a Committee of Concern to examine problems of housing, voter registration, legal...
...When I'm pregnant, it's just like taking dope," said the Negro woman bearing her ninth child at the District of Columbia General Hospital in Washington. "I can hardly wait to get home so I can get some more starch," she added, referring not to starchy foods but to laundry starch. "Sometimes I'll eat two or three boxes...
According to Strickman, Columbia has now begun a new series of complex studies of the filter's effect on the gases in tobacco smoke, though not on living tissue, and the results may be announced within a few weeks. When asked why the university did not wait for such studies, Strickman replied: "You can research from now to dooms day. But you have to start some place. Do you have any other filters that can do what this one does...
Residency rules are just as stringent. Federal law allows states to require newcomers with dependent children to wait as long as one year to become eligible for U.S.-backed aid. States can also withhold the funds of their own welfare programs for as long as they choose. A South Dakota law can bar needy outsiders from ever collecting welfare; in Massachusetts they can be deported to their native states. All such requirements sit uneasily with the spirit of a 1941 Supreme Court decision voiding California's "anti-Okie" law and guaranteeing indigents free access to any state. And last...