Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hell is Sean Clancy, or Bill Swiacki for that matter. Wow man, these two peons played for Amherst, they were Lord Jeffs; I mean what the hell is a Lord Jeff? These guys got drafted. And take Rich Moser from URI--please...
Along the way, Congress probably will knock out nearly all the revenue-raising reforms that the President has proposed. Many of those changes would strike at corporations and rich people, but two major ones−tightening medical deductions and eliminating deductions for state sales taxes−would hit middle income individuals. Those proposals have fanned hostility to the whole program...
Even nonrock enthusiasts may find The Band worth getting to know. During the course of a 16-year career, this group produced some uncommonly rich music. Their best work demonstrates a literary appreciation of American myth and a ravenous affection for American pop songs; jazz, folk, hillbilly, soul and country music are all part of The Band's mix. In The Last Waltz, the group performs most of its best-known numbers. At times its members share Winterland's stage with such past associates and current cronies as Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Van Morrison and Emmylou Harris...
Until 1968 the Roman Catholic bishops of Latin America were seen by many as friends of the rich, supporters of the status quo and allies of oppressive regimes. Then, in a general conference convened that year in the Colombian city of Medellin, they declared their independence, denouncing "institutionalized violence" in Latin American society and vowing to campaign against "injustices and excesses of power." Medellin swiftly became a synonym for progressive action−and frequently radicalism−in the Latin American church. Under the banner of the "theology of liberation," many priests, nuns and lay people used an unusual synthesis...
...unrealistic, especially where repressive regimes almost cry out for some sharp judgments. Brazil's bishops, for example, seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from Rome, without a struggle...