Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houses. This year's economic growth may be better still-if Belanúde can settle a squabble with International Petroleum Co., a Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate that has been working the rich fields on the north coast since 1914. During the campaign, Belaúnde called loudly for the company's expropriation, and Congress later unanimously revoked I.P.C.'s oil rights. But Belaunde is smart enough to know that Peru will get neither the aid nor the continuing private investment it needs unless he makes a fair settlement soon. In private negotiations...
...rich, unstable matron, Barbara finds ample cause for panic. She dreams pleasant dreams about an ardent young man, but wakes to a nightmare life with an insanely jealous husband who has no eyeballs, like Orphan Annie. His blindness encourages him to visualize elaborate hanky-panky between his wife and his attorney, Robert Taylor. When Husband Howard disappears in a fiery explosion, Barbara grows restive. Howard's cane begins tap-tapping around the house at midnight. She moves into the apartment behind a beauty parlor she owns, clearly preferring the mud-packed monstrosities that sit out front...
Among cash-rich oil companies, realty investment has become a major sideline. In partnership with Contractor Del Webb, Houston's Humble Oil is erecting a satellite city next to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (for which Humble cannily donated the land). Gulf Oil guaranteed a $20 million bank loan to the developer of the new town of Reston, outside Washington, in exchange for gas-station sites, and made a similar deal with another builder near San Francisco. Union Oil owns a 45% interest in a firm planning a big community in Simi Valley near Los Angeles...
...that faith. Despite this reference to "enemies," and despite a condemnation of isolationism old and new-for, said Johnson, the American covenant requires the expenditure of lives and treasure "in countries we barely know"-it was an inward-looking speech, echoing domestic hopes and concerns. "In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry," said the President. "In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write...
Students who cheat at Harvard eschew the timeworn eliches. The very rich and/or very desperate have even been known to hire substitutes...