Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although he carefully refrained from personal attacks on Thatcher, Callaghan time and again put forward the warning that a Tory victory would mean more hardship for the average family, more privileges for the rich. "The welfare, the prosperity, the jobs and the care of older people depend upon a Labor majority," he told a partisan crowd of 70 people in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall last week. Responding to Thatcher's tough stand on union abuses, he charged that Tory plans for legal reforms in industrial relations could lead to a disastrous conflict of views between the unions...
Welcome to the Oil Game?the highest stakes, most dazzling game on earth. See the world's largest, wealthiest companies match wits with lumbering bureaucracies. Behold developing nations become Croesus-rich overnight. Watch capitalists try to raise billions for offshore drilling rigs taller than the Empire State Building, for supertankers bigger than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically...
...base is the boom city of Houston, and the risks and rewards of the profession are reflected in a remark by one of its members, Chester Benge: "The oil business is one of the few businesses in the world where you can go to bed poor and wake up rich...
...once because of his vows could touch neither women nor money now insists upon introducing his wife to the interviewer. A man who spent five years in silence except for occasional conversation with his guru has taught at several universities and speaks ten languages eloquently with a rich Indian accent. Chitrabhanu does not care what religion a person believes in; he cares about his soul...
...only a rich as the poorest of the poor...