Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position of influence," Murdoch said last week. Pause. "I hope for good." He acknowledges that he had long banked on being able to drive out the larger rival Daily News, which seems unlikely. Now he accepts that "you might get the Post scratchily in the black but never rich on it." Mid-March is his deadline to sell or fold the Post, unless he can get the Government order reversed. What are his chances? A tough and crafty gambler who loves a fight, Murdoch guesses, "Less than even in Congress. Better than even in the courts...
...girl, and the dark, obsessive bond between that same young woman and the Phantom, who seeks to win her devotion by making her a star. The maiden is thus expected to choose between outward beauty and the beauty of the soul and, in protofeminist fashion, between status as a rich man's wife and acclaim as an artist in her own right. As befits a fantasy, she gets both by virtue of a brief display of compassion...
Other motorcade news. During a ten-minute Bush stop in Alden, Iowa, a Secret Service agent halted all traffic at the main intersection. Knowing Iowans' impatience with such inconveniences, Bush Aide Rich Bond furiously urged the agent to allow the traffic to flow freely. The agent refused. At last report, he was being transferred off the V.P.'s security detail...
Reilly has had to depend on a couple of youngsters to help bolster Army's offensive attack. Freshman center Rob Tobin (9 goals, 15 assists, 24 points) and sophomore wing Rich Sheridan (12-10--22) lead a Cadet offense that has averaged only two goals per each ECAC game...
...after a fashion, if the unemployment and interest rates refuse to respond to his entreaties. But clearly tax increases pain Simon; early drafts of his economic white paper had just one line on taxes. Even now, he plans to make up for any budget shortfall in outmoded soak-the-rich fashion: raising income-tax rates for individuals earning more than $100,000 a year. As unpopular as the rich may be in some Democratic Party circles, there just are not that many of them: each 1% increase in tax rates under Simon's plan would bring in merely $2 billion...