Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources of public inspiration run more thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against...
...already owns. Then, in sunny Nice, Partner No. 2 (Gert Frobe, the Goldfinger of Goldfinger) finds himself jowl-deep in violence, sham infidelity, fixed races and drugged thoroughbreds ostensibly doctored by Belmondo, posing as a German veterinarian who possesses "Inca secrets from plants in Peru." The sucker is soon poorer by 60 million...
...Income from its investment portfolio, which includes 46,284,000 shares of Ford Motor Co. stock and shares of 126 other corporations, was a glaring $94,601,000 less than outgo. But no matter how much it spends, the Ford Foundation can't get poorer. Cautiously raising the book value of its Ford stock from $30 to $33 per share, still well below the market value, the Foundation reported that its net assets had risen by $113 million to an alltime high of $2.4 billion...
...Kennedy. He has already assigned a task force to study a Heller scheme to turn over a fixed amount of federal in come-tax money to states and localities to keep the boom booming. This would mean taking money from upper-income groups and states and giving it to poorer ones, and while that plan may never come to pass, it is indicative of the economic line fathered by Heller...
...former president of American Motors warned that if we do not help raise the ability of the poorer nations to compete, "our enemies will turn the envy of the world against us and destroy...