Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More significantly, Reagan reasserted the American role in the Persian Gulf and in fact extended it. The Administration announced it had decided to fly the U.S. flag over eleven oil tankers belonging to Kuwait, an oil-rich Persian Gulf state whose ships have frequently been bombed by Iranian planes. The reflagged Kuwaiti tankers will be entitled to U.S. Navy protection...
...though, is not the whole story. For the past 15 years, petrodollar- rich gulf states have provided a lucrative market for a vast array of Western products. Europe's export-dependent defense industries in particular have enjoyed a multibillion-dollar bonanza in the region. Although declining oil revenues in recent years have slowed the spending spree, the gulf remains an important market for West European and Japanese exporters. Last year British sales to the region were worth more than $8 billion, while French exports, excluding arms, brought in around $3 billion. The Japanese sold $6.8 billion in the region...
...schoolchildren being shooed past canvas-laden museum walls on the way to the cafeteria." The attitude displayed here is one of blatant elitism, which not only equates the enjoyment of art with a certain level of education but also implies that "taste" will be found exclusively among the rich, who can afford to buy original works...
...famous writer-director looked serious and nervous as he faced the Senate hearing in Washington last week. "Let us just say," began Woody Allen, "that a very rich man has purchased all the films ever made in Hollywood." An outtake from The Front? Nope, an inset of Allen making a rare public appearance to voice his concern about the controversial practice of "colorizing" black-and-white movies. Joined by fellow Directors Milos & Forman and Sydney Pollack, Allen protested the computerized coloring of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Casablanca, calling the result "cheesy, artificial symbols...
...crimes. Indeed, Litman first made a name for himself in 1977 by getting a conviction on the lesser charge of manslaughter for Richard Herrin, a Yale graduate who killed his girlfriend Bonnie Garland with a hammer. "It was suggested," says her father Paul bitterly, "that she was a manipulative, rich, spoiled person who didn't treat this lovely man who murdered her nicely." Garland, a New York attorney, is working for the spread of legislation that gives victims the right to a voice at bail hearings and with the prosecution before a plea bargain is accepted. "I've told Jennifer...