Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postwar period may have fostered the political unrest that now confronts the administration. The increased literacy rates, urbanization, television and other factors accompanying development have raised the expectations within developing nations with regard to the improvement of economic well being. However, greater inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth and the continued exclusion of newly politicized groups from significant participation in government have characterized modernization in much of the Third World...
...nation's third highest number of public housing units. Some 23% of Atlantans live below the poverty level, a percentage that is nearly double the national average. Blacks now constitute 66% of the city's population, but they claim a far smaller share of the wealth...
...Soviet Union, where contraceptives are both unpopular and hard to obtain, the average woman has six abortions in her lifetime. In Kenya, where a man's wealth is often measured by the number of his children, the average woman bears eight children. In Mexico City, where herbal abortifacients are sold in markets, four out of five beds in the Woman's Hospital are filled by women suffering complications after illegal abortions. In Italy, where abortion has been legal since 1978, Pope John Paul II condemns even contraception, fueling fierce political debate...
...jurist decided his course of action. At least indirectly, Federal District Court Judge Walter Jay Skinner had encouraged the idea. After handing down the tough sentence last fall, he had promised Krutschewski's lawyers that he would consider any sensible alternative sentence stripping the veteran of his tainted wealth. But the defense proposal failed to satisfy Skinner. In a 13-page decision, he concluded that the payment, large as it might be, would not be a great enough deterrent to stop the smuggling along the New England coast. Skinner also worried about the scheme's inherent discrimination: only...
...Japan's pell-mell rush to grow, so much of the nation's wealth has been invested in industry that little has been left over for anything else. Even such basic amenities as sewers and housing remain inadequate by Western standards. Housing space is so cramped that building plots cost up to nine times as much as they do in the U.S. and room occupancy rates are 50% higher...