Word: rich
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Snow predicted that this "major catastrophe" would happen before the year 2000. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, unless three tremendous social tasks are by then in operation." The tasks: massive grants of food, money and technical aid from rich nations to poor, perhaps amounting to 20% of the well-off countries' gross national products for 15 years; increased efficiency in food production by poor nations themselves; and new efforts in poor nations "to reduce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in the population increase in the rich countries...
...Giants, Seven Days to Sunday (Simon & Schuster, $5.95): "If you are a Giant fan, you have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor or a Wall Street broker, an artist or a truck driver, a college dean or a housewife, a motion picture star or a social worker. You represent every facet of American life with a completeness no other gathering in the entire country...
...Moscow in 1958, Cliburn plays a punishing concert schedule of well over 100 appearances a year. At fees that start at $7,500 for a solo appearance, this means that he makes something like a million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore, the travel, the friendship of the famous, the adoring crowds and the publicity are heady stimulation to someone who is instinctively a performer. "I'm not the kind of person who would want to confine himself to playing in his own salon," Cliburn admits...
...Rich. Whatever caused last week's retreat, the merger had drawn one strong and perhaps decisive negative vote from Wall Street. On the basis of tentative financial terms announced by the two companies in September, Xerox was setting the value of C.I.T. at something like $70 a share-a bit rich, in the view of many securities analysts, for a stock that had been trading at around $45 a share...
...Gambling is a way of life in New Haven," explains a tavern tramp. "Not only has Yale won every game this season, but they are beating the odds continuously. The Yale football team is making a lot of New Haven residents rich. Winning is no longer the question. It is now "How many points can Dowling put on the board...