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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 25 years in business in Harvard Square, I wrote Proposition 1-2-3 because it didn't seem fair to me that rich white couples can buy a house from me off Brattle Street, but a poor man can't buy his own apartment on Bristol Street. And a needy couple can't buy their apartment on Broadway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prop 1-2-3 | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

...poor have a built-in defense against runaway crack abuse: they run out of money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Plague Without Boundaries | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

Having bought their way into addiction, affluent users often try to buy their way out. They can pick and choose from a long menu of treatments, from acupuncture to cocaine-blocking medications like imipramine and desipramine, but there are no quick fixes. In the end, all crack addicts, rich or poor, must put themselves back on their own feet -- a slow process that calls for professional counseling, steady support from family and friends, fearless self-examination and not a little pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: A Plague Without Boundaries | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...Jeffrey Sachs, the glaring gap between rich and poor in Latin America is a major cause of the debt crisis that has racked the region. The boyish Harvard & economist, an adviser to debt-ridden countries from Bolivia to Poland, blames wealthy Latin elites for dodging taxes and arranging self-serving subsidies that have "sucked the blood" from many governments, forcing them to borrow heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Harvard Debt Doctor's Controversial Cure | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...Rich and poor live in different worlds. Unless government leaders can carry out reforms, their economies face financial disaster. -- Andrew Tobias on buying a car. -- The battle over Guber and Peters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 134, No. 19 NOVEMBER 6, 198 | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

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