Word: riche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Embarrassments. During the week-long debate, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore laid down the only blanket denunciation of the bill, claimed that it was "the embodiment of fiscal folly" and "unconscionable" in its tax reduction "for the already rich." Yet despite his vow to try to scuttle the bill, Gore's only victory was to tax Americans living abroad more heavily. Passed 47-41, his proposal would require U.S. citizens living overseas more than three years to pay full tax on all income over $6,000; they now enjoy an annual $35,000 exemption. Those abroad 17 out of each...
...year or more to party coffers in a presidential campaign. Seeking support for his war on poverty, Johnson remarked dryly: "A nation that cannot take care of the many who are poor will not have the strength to take care of the few who are rich...
...birth control methods acceptable to all nations and religions, this to be reached by international agreement safeguarded by regular inspection of the reproduction mechanism of the population bomb. I am for harmless cigarettes, still using the same old rich, flavorful tobacco. I am for a vigorous two-party system in which my party will control the White House, all the governorships and over 75% of Congress. > Wherever there is trouble I shall go -and I shall return...
...declares that if present trends continue, cities will become the homes of only the very rich and the very poor. Moreover, they will lose their "most important asset," variety, as they are divided uniformly into industrial, office and apartment ghettos. This fear seems absurdly exaggerated, especially when Blake sneers at Lincoln Center as a cultural ghetto...
Follamen Dan Kirsch and Rich Kolombatovitch won all three of their bouts, Jon Koelb won both of his sabre bouts, fencing primarily a defensive match. As usual, the epee group proved erratic...