Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski harshly denounced the Soviets for violating the "code of detente" and for making a "shortsighted attempt to exploit global difficulties." Brzezinski and other U.S. officials maintained, in the face of Soviet and Cuban denials, that the rebels who invaded Zaïre's mineral-rich Shaba province last month had been trained by Cuban troops and equipped by Moscow. Insisted a White House aide: "We've got the goods on them. We've got a file three inches thick." The Administration was exploiting the issue of Soviet and Cuban involvement in the Zaïrian crisis...
...family is $325, but it can go as high as $1,089, and the payments are tax free. Six percent of last year's recipients increased the after-tax incomes they were receiving before their injuries. There is no income limit on who can be paid. The rich can collect along with the poor?and do. In such cases, the have-nots are being taxed to support the haves. Even though spending on rehabilitation services has doubled in seven years, from $575 per person to $1,125, the number of disabled people returning to work has continued to decline...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Bob Packwood that would allow parents to deduct up to $500 from their income tax for every child they had in college or private school. The White House claims that the credit would cost the Government too much in lost revenues and would benefit the rich as well as the poor. But the tax-credit plan has great political appeal. Last week the House voted 237 to 158 for a tuition tax credit of up to $250 for each student in college and up to $100 for each student in a private secondary school. Carter...
...presence of students on financial aid has made an impression on these Lowell kitchen worker. It is--to them--a sign that Harvard does not cater only to the rich, and they do not see Harvard strictly as an elite institution open only to the offspring of the wealthy. "I think anybody who works hard can get in," Thelma says. "I think it's fair in that respect. I know many kids who have to work everyday and go to classes, too, and that's not easy." Pat adds, "Even the rich kids don't make a big show about...
...South who has played one roadhouse too many. He is one of rock's most successful and respected figures, Robbie Robertson of The Band, explaining in his own slightly hackneyed way the group's decision last year to stop touring. The Band--Robertson (lead guitar and covals), Rich Danko (bass and vocals), Levon Helm (drums and vocals), Garth Hudson (keyboards) and Richard Manuel (piano and vocals)--did what few groups, successful or struggling, have ever managed to do: they quit while they were still ahead...