Word: riche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Gazette, Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, gave us a succinct account of how the Shah "wanted to bring his country into the 20th century quickly but in doing so disrupted all aspects of society": the aristocracy and middle class invested in industry and many became rich, while their children got educated abroad and sometimes became disaffected. Peasants crowded into the cities and agriculture declined. The priorities were quite wrong. "The United States and Europe contributed to the terrible mistakes made under the Shah's rule because American and European businesses were just interested in making money...
Wichita is fortunate because all those businesses are buoyant now. But the community is also typical of many middle-size cities in the rich band between the Mississippi and the Rockies. Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Austin, Omaha and others are quietly booming, with their unemployment down to the 2½%-3½ range. They are the beneficiaries of economic diversification and the increasing desire of Americans to settle in cities that, as Beech Aircraft President Frank Hedrick puts it, "are small enough to allow individuals to excel and big enough to give them plenty of room to excel...
...James Brown (Penn) 7.76 meters; 2. Greg Witherspoon (Cor) 7.13; 3. Ken Boddie (Cor) 7.01; 4. Ken Talton (Cor) 7.00; Rich Konsens...
...THIS SOUNDS very reasonable--if you are a corporate president or counsel. The students and others here expect more than textbook public relations gimmickry from a rich, non-profit and supposedly moral institution like Harvard. Yet, although the Corporation publicly refuses to apply political or moral criteria to its donors, Bok and the members of the Corporation do negotiate with and even reject the bearers of certain politically questionable gifts, albeit only in extreme cases. For example, Steiner this week revealed Bok's previously undisclosed rejection of a large donation from a "rather repressive government that seemed to be trying...
...Brandon (Penn) 14:30.52; 2. Ed Sheehan (H) 14:35.75; 3. Mike Grogan (A) 14:38.16; 4. Rich McNally (Col) 14:41.78; 5. Turner Stauffer...