Word: enriched
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...addition to making the school easier to attend, the campaign also seeks to enrich students’ experiences at the school...
...CHARGED. ANDREW FASTOW, 40, former Enron chief financial officer, with conspiring to inflate profits and enrich himself at the company's expense; after surrendering to police in Houston. Fastow, considered the mastermind behind the financial schemes that brought about Enron's collapse, was released after his family posted bail of $5 million...
That, barring a surprise revelation, is not what the U.S. President is likely to produce this time. Stories will be told, like the one Administration officials are retailing about Iraq's efforts to acquire thousands of specialized aluminum tubes for possible use in centrifuges to enrich uranium. Pictures will be flourished, like the ones of sinister new structures at old nuclear-related sites in Iraq. But it's the inability to know what's under those roofs and what those aluminum tubes are really for that lies at the heart of the Bush Administration's case against Iraq...
What is Bush if not a member of the elite who made millions in business largely because of his name and connections, and who as President has promoted policies designed to further enrich the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us? It's sickening when Bush strikes that "plain folks" pose. He is plain folks neither by birth nor by virtue of demonstrating any sympathy for people in the middle- and lower-income brackets. TRUDY RING Burbank, Calif...
...that question about us.) One explanation is the conflicts between the short-term interests of those in power and the long-term interests of everybody: chiefs were becoming rich from processes that ultimately undermined society. That too is an acute issue today, as wealthy Americans do things that enrich themselves in the short run and harm everyone in the long run. As the Anasazi chiefs found, they could get away with those policies for a while, but ultimately they bought themselves the privilege of being merely the last to starve...