Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinner parties kept telling stories about barbers or messenger boys who had kept their ears open, bought on margin and become millionaires. John J. Raskob, who had been a director of General Motors and was now the Democratic Party chairman, published an article titled "Everybody Ought to Be Rich." The jazz age would never end. What almost nobody seemed to notice was that while the leading stocks kept climbing, many others did not. Celanese, for example, had dropped from 118 to 66 since 1927, Philip Morris from 41 to 12. The speculators also did not seem to notice that...
Young and eager, Bud Fox snares a $50,000-a-year job at a Wall Street investment bank. But he is not satisfied. Fox dreams of scoring the big trades. He gets his chance when he meets the wealthy corporate raider Gordon Gekko. "I'm offering you rich," says Gekko. Enticed, Fox takes off into the stratosphere of high finance, only to crash-land a year later...
Chappaz and his French colleagues feel the same way. "These objects would eventually have been destroyed by the sea," he says. "Why should we simply abandon them?" He adds, "I won't get rich from the Titanic." Indeed, the objects are scheduled to go on a world-wide tour next summer and eventually be lent to various museums for public display...
WHAT CAN one really say about Harvey, that good old adorable 1940s comedy about a rich, eccentric family whose bachelor uncle thinks he sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...
Twenty-five percent of Americans now "live in poverty some time during the year," and in 1986, "the income gap between rich and poor families [reached] its widest point in four decades," the study said...