Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprises have created hundreds of thousands of new jobs that have drawn millions of Spaniards from their pueblos to the cities. Foreign investment is coming in. Gross national product has soared 65% since 1960; per-capita income last year passed the mystical $500 dividing line that supposedly separates the "rich" nations from the "poor...
...alone was 125%) and hard to get that Spaniards dubbed them "haigas"-a slang term indicating that their owners were either very rich, very powerful or very crooked. Last year 170,000 vehicles came off the assembly lines of seven separate factories in five Spanish cities, and production is expected to double this year; the entire 1966 output of the Spanish-made SEAT cars is already sold out by dealers. Madrid's streets have become so clogged that the city has had to restrict parking in the downtown area. It has also opened three underground garages, one of which...
...stockbroker's wife conspire over curtains. And the symbiosis is not limited to working hours. For many a woman with a busy or absent husband, the presentable homosexual is in demand as an escort -witty, pretty, catty, and no problem to keep at arm's length. Rich dowagers often have a permanent traveling court of charming international types who exert influence over what pictures and houses their patronesses buy, what decorators they use, and where they spend which season...
...will recite like a cover girl: "Six feet three inches, 200 pounds, 49-inch chest, 32-inch waist"), plus a pair of legs that the Italians rank with those of Tenor Franco ("Golden Calves") Corelli. Thomas' voice was stamped with virility-clear, sturdy, securely focused, with a rich lyrical quality that is unusual among heldentenors. While his acting tends toward the hand-clasped-to-heart school, his he-man stature and curly black locks make him one of opera's most commanding figures...
...Inter national Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements and the Euro pean Payments Union-fell by $40 million during the first nine months of 1965. That was the first such drop in ten years. The IMF figures that the missing gold has flowed into the hands of rich speculators in industrial countries, particularly France and secrecy-loving Switzerland. This amounts to a bet that the world price of gold will rise, and it puts pressure on Europeans as well as the U.S. Treasury. Reason: both would lose if a crisis ended with devaluation of the dollar...