Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gowon, invaded Ojukwu's Eastern Region six weeks ago. Ojukwu was slow to make good his threat. But last week, having fought his attackers to a standstill, he was ready to take the offensive. In a swift twelve-hour drive, he captured the federal government's oil-rich Midwestern State (pop: 2,500,000) with impressive ease...
Emerging from their stronghold in the plantation country near Punia, Schramme and his men began a march on the border city of Bukavu, once a resort for rich Belgian colonials. They met little resistance. Warned by jungle telegraph that the mercenaries were approaching, the defenders of Bukavu threw away their arms, commandeered civilian clothes, and fled across the Ruzizi River into Rwanda...
...Year's dance beneath the giant prayer banner, or thangka, which portrays Padmasambhava (Lotus-born), the Indian missionary-and central figure in Bhutan's art-who converted Bhutan to Buddhism in the 8th century. In his hand he holds a thunderbolt, symbol of enlightenment to the pageantry-rich people...
Traffic Jam. The problem is the result of volume that has a big plus side in rich brokerage commissions. Compared with last year's record average of 7,500,000 shares a day, trading on the Big Board has surged to a dizzying 10 million shares a day-a level that the exchange just two years ago predicted would not be reached until...
Contrary to the misleading title of this book, not anyone can make a million. But almost everyone would like to try. For that reason, there is usually a market for get-rich-quick books. Shulman is neither a professional writer nor an investment counselor; he is the ex-coroner of Toronto, whose spare-time market speculations made him a millionaire. He wrote his book in two weeks, and in five months it has sold 108,000 copies. As a how-to-do-it handbook, it forwards the questionable thesis that what has worked for him can work for anybody...