Word: riche
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Israeli Premier has not been doing much to bring it about. Sadat could not possibly afford to appear to be selling out the other Arabs; to do so would be to lose the vital financial support he receives from Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich states (to the tune of $2 billion to $4 billion a year). Sadat could take such action only if the P.L.O. and the other Arabs dealt themselves out, but he certainly could not do it at a time when the Israelis, quite apart from refusing to withdraw from the lands they already occupy...
...State residents released this month shows that, when asked whether they would be willing to have a nuclear plant sited in their area, more than half of those polled answered no. Only a quarter of the 1,000 respondents approved. And voters in California's Kern County, a rich, conservative farming area, rejected by about 2 to 1 a proposal by Western utilities to build a $5 billion nuclear complex large enough to supply electricity for a city of 5 million...
...significant victory over Britain last week. Since mid-February, the two countries had been deadlocked in a tense and sometimes bitter confrontation over transatlantic air fares: Washington wanted them cut. London said no. But faced with the threat that the U.S. would start restricting British flights to the rich American market, the U.K. gave in. It will now allow U.S. airlines, and presumably its own. to fly passengers between London and 14 American cities-including Atlanta, Chicago. Dallas and Seattle-at budget and stand-by fares proportionately as low as those already in effect on the New York-London route...
There are many other rich stories that American Hot Wax shortchanges. Though the movie indicates that rock brought kids of all races and classes together, it never makes dramatic capital out of this crucial aspect of the music's social impact. Freed's susceptibility to payola, which ultimately proved his undoing, is mentioned only in passing and is then blithely excused. Kaye chooses to dwell instead on a tired subplot about a starry-eyed teen-age songwriter (Laraine Newman, of NBC's Saturday Night Live) who feuds with her disapproving folks...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY America. A time of prosperity, when the Horatio Alger myth is still alive, if somewhat decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep...