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by Caro, Robert A · 14 Apr 1975
would publicly agree to meet with the tenants' committee ... if the need arose to resolve problems," and Hodgkiss had made that agreement. Now they called Moses and Hodgkiss. "We never even got a reply." They telephoned Wagner's office. Wagner had "wanted the tenants' committee to know they could personally call upon the Mayor's
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communities can help to create energy independence among Canada’s most vulnerable populations. Empowering the Developing World Incredibly, 65 percent of the human population has never made a telephone call, and a third of the human race has no access to electricity. Today, the per-capita use of energy throughout the developing world is a
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away the blue sweater that ended up on a little Rwandan boy. Since then, the world has greatly changed. The boy I encountered had never seen a television show, made a telephone call, or taken a photograph, whereas his counterpart today, an urban youth wearing secondhand clothes in Kigali, is likely to have access to a
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
by Alice Miller · 2 Jan 1981 · 142pp · 5,823 words
thought possible. Whereas this patient had always despised miserliness, he suddenly catches himself reckoning up the two minutes lost to his session through a telephone call. Whereas he had previously never made demands himself and had always been tireless in fulfilling the demands of others, now he is suddenly furious that his analyst again is
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by Studs Terkel · 1 Jan 1974 · 926pp · 312,419 words
in there, he comes over and says, “Are you a cop?” I said, “Jeez, I’ve been called a lot of things, I never been called that before.” I got a little nervous. He was a big guy, big Polack, nine feet tall and a thousand pounds. That was the only time I was ever
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know the address and phone number of all the places we do business with and a lot of our customers. I never even look in the phone book. (Dave had just made a phone call after leafing through the directory.) If he asked me, I coulda told him. DAVE STRIBLING He is twenty-three, married, and
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… (According to Wired, there are fewer phone lines on the African continent than there are in Manhattan … and half of the world’s population has never made a phone call. Out of sight, out of mind?) It is getting harder to maintain the value of the currency in these regions, because what they produce is
In Defense of Global Capitalism
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of technology in world history. The telephone has existed for 125 years, but until only a few years ago, half the world’s inhabitants had never made a phone call. This time things are moving with infinitely greater rapidity, and globalization is the reason. One out of every 10 families in Beijing and Shanghai has
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the statistics showed that the gap between rich and poor—nationally and globally—has never been so wide, a world where half the population has never even made a phone call, Kelly responded by saying that there's never been so good a time to be poor, though he didn't offer any evidence. Farther
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An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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recovered. “It changed everything,” recalled Betty Lasky. “He had never licked a stamp and put one on an envelope in his life. He probably had never made a phone call; he always had a secretary. He had never been to the market. And all of these things were great discoveries. They thrilled him. He would
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