Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earl William's pudgy Nanki-Poo was the sole disappointment. His acting would be less embarrassing in a much poorer production, and his forceful tenor shows an occasional affection for jarring flats. Robert Rounseville, however, will sing the role this week...
Thus, 15 months after he took power promising his people "comfort and ease," the great nationalist departed, leaving his country richer in pride and poorer in power and pocketbook. He had cut off Iran's nose to spite its face. Deprived of $100 million a year in direct and indirect revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., unable to sell its oil abroad, Iran's treasury was running into the red at a $10 million-a-month clip. Mossadegh's policies were bankrupt, and Iran was nearly...
...week, EPU's deficit with the dollar area was still a huge $3.7 billion. Equally alarming, the Payment Union itself was out of balance. Some IOUs (e.g., Belgian francs, Swedish kronor) proved "harder" than others, easier to convert into dollars. The richer nations grew richer, the poor got poorer. Richest of all were the Belgians and their trade partners, the Luxembourgers, who had piled up an unmanageable EPU surplus of $750 million...
...rather naive notion. There are almost as many class distinctions in the public school system as there are between private and public secondary schools. A public school in a wealthy suburb, Wellesley for example, certainly represents in broad terms one class just as a public school in the poorer sections of East Boston is dominated by another...
...best work, Kahl found that although there were proportionally more people in the better categories now than in '48, and although the relative ranking of these categories had not changed since '48, there seemed to be a tendency for each group as a whole to do poorer work than those of four years...