Word: inheritence
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...long run, Reich's book boils down to a conversation piece about categories I, II and III, and a simple assertion: the dinosaurs are perishing, and little furry animals will inherit the earth...
Despite Administration claims that the added force would be used for both campus investigations and antihijacking work, it was likely that most of the 1,000 new agents would actually become involved in anti-bookmaking investigations, which they would inherit under a provision of the omnibus crime bill now before Congress...
Rich and Sick. It is close to impossible for a man to enter a TV-dominated race for major office without money; he must earn it, inherit it, or acquire it through the donations of special interests. Without it, the door to the television studio closes in his face with the finality of a bank vault...
...promptly painted over murals that showed Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. And whites continue to treat blacks with condescension. Greenville School Superintendent Thompson says desegregation will work only if the blacks "keep their mouths shut and don't get pushy." Otherwise, says Thompson, he will "inherit an empty shell...
Cloudy Future. Colonsay is an anachronism, and anachronisms are nearly always costly. The owner of the island-the "laird" of the title-is an Englishman named Euan Howard, fourth Baron Strathcona. It was his mixed fortune to inherit the place in 1959 along with the responsibility to maintain at his own expense a broad range of social and economic services. At that time the island cost ? 10,000 a year to keep going. Through economies, the island produce, including cattle and sea kale, is now just about able to support the inhabitants. McPhee likes Strathcona (rather better than his tenants...