Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea's progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...
...gouged him in a duel before the brother came in with a stiletto. Both duelists officially die, secretly recover. Meanwhile the brother begs his sister to pretend she is going to have a child by the richer dead suitor. She pretends she is going to have one by the poorer one. The mother tries to turn her heretofore legitimate son into a bastard because he destroyed the prospective son-in-law who was her prospective lover. A pregnant nun appears on the scene...
...tribal associations. When Nigeria became independent in 1960, the Ibos controlled most of the black-owned businesses. When the British left, they stepped into top posts in universities, business houses and the civil service. But the Ibos have usually been resented, especially by the Hausa Moslems of the comparatively poorer North. In last year's riots, thousands of Ibos died and more than 50,000 fled into their own Eastern state...
Many of the folders which Glimp read had been drawn in by Bender's efforts to recruit in high schools and in regions where Harvard had never been very active, and to offer more financial aid there than Harvard had ever done before. They came from poorer urban neighborhoods, from foreign countries--and from the mid-West...
...With new elections approaching in May, opposition politicians are speaking out more and more. "The rich are getting richer," says Opposition Candidate Po Sun Yun of the New Democratic Party, "and the poor are getting poorer. Small and medium-sized businessmen and farmers are suffering under the government's economic policies"-mass-production policies which clearly favor the larger, more efficient producers...