War on Poverty

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A set of government programs, designed to help poor Americans, begun by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. The War on Poverty included measures for job training and improvement of housing.

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Choose the sentence that uses "rent" correctly.

No one wanted to rent the run-down house on the corner.

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I had rent the apartment from an eccentric old lady.

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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
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He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
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His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.
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And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
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"There is no more war," Brion translated for Ulv, realizing that the Disan had understood nothing of the explanation.
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In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
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