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Word: rich (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...punishment is meant to be financial, why not impose fines on all violators, perhaps proportional to wealth? Why impose a financial punishment only on the indigent by removing their scholarships? If the purpose was to force the indigent violators out of the University, why not candidly suspend rich and poor alike...

Author: By Bruce VAN Wyk, | Title: Federal Involvement in the Universities: A Reply to James Glassman | 6/9/1969 | See Source »

Located astride the headwaters of the Nile River, the Sudan is rich in history but little else. It was the home of the dervishes who defeated and put to death Britain's General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon in 1885, and who were in turn defeated by a punitive expedition under General Herbert Kitchener. Until 1956, the Sudan was nominally ruled by Britain and Egypt. Then it asserted independence and took possession of the largest land area of any African nation. Independence brought a bitter civil conflict, now 13 years old, between the 10 million Arabs of the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: Step to the Left | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...their own resources and over the policies and profits of large U.S. companies that operate in Latin America. Ecuador, in addition, had a specific request: that the U.S. respect its claim to 200 miles of territorial water offshore until Ecuadoreans develop the equipment and know-how to exploit their rich fishing areas themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Rocky's Second Stage | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...original Pucci culottes. After she married Braniff President Harding Lawrence, it became obvious that the family relationship was too cozy for business. The conflict was resolved last summer when she won the TWA account and Braniff dropped her. Last week she announced that earnings of her agency, Wells, Rich, Greene Inc., rose 63% to $801,000 during the first half of its fiscal year. The total was boosted in part by TWA's $30 million ad budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: That Million-Dollar Smile | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Seizing on these seemingly immutable truths, two itinerant Negro waiters named Dave Greene and Blueboy Harris make themselves rich by setting up a thriving numbers bank in the city's ghetto. Like so many other aspects of the black world, the numbers operation is an inverted form of a white institution, the solid local business community. It, too, boosts the economy and shapes the ghetto's social and political structure. For the author, a former waiter, it further serves as an arena for playing off characters who embody multiple visions of the Negro destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taken for Granite | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

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