Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keeping oil prices unrealistically low is an unsatisfactory way to aid the poor. The rich use more energy in absolute terms than the poor, and, in relative terms, they consume almost as much when one counts indirect uses of energy, such as airplane travel. It is better to pinpoint aid directly to the poor. In fact, unrealistically low energy prices hurt all consumer because, over the long run, they cause the price of energy to be even higher than it would otherwise be. As an explicit example, the price controls on oil since the 1973 "OPEC Revolution...
...ancients. We wonder about ourselves and our environment. We inquire who we are, and from where we came. We long for an understanding of the starry points of light in the nighttime sky. We seek the origin and destiny of things. but now attempts to provide answers are aided by the experimental tools of modern technology: astronomical telescopes to improve perception of the macroscopic universe; high-energy accelerators to aid understanding of the microscopic world; automated spaceprobes to gather data unavailable on Earth; sophisticated computers to help keep pace with the increased flow of this wealth of new information...
...ACOUSTIC FIRST SET ends with "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)"--the unaccompanied version of his enigmatic tribute to rock and roll. As he did on Rust Never Sleeps, Young repeats the song later with the enthusiastic aid of Crazy Horsemen Frank Sampedro (rhythm guitar), Billy Talbot (bass) and Ralph Molina (drums...
...poverty!" Seizing upon the issue of most urgent concern to her peasant audience-the high price of onions -she promised not only to fight inflation but to bring the bounty of the welfare state closer to home. "I don't know whether you've had any government aid here," she shouted grandly, "but if you vote me in, you'll get it!" Appealing to more sophisticated urban voters, she promised to restore stability to a government that has been repeatedly shaken by bitter internecine quarrels...