Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...success of South Africa will be built." Indeed, a quarter of a billion carats were to be dug out in the next century. Since the diamonds lay in Afrikaner lands, the British simply declared that they were annexing those lands, and British miners came pouring in. Two decades later rich deposits of gold were discovered in the Transvaal. Still more Britons and other foreigners came flooding in to dig up what had been the Voortrekkers' homeland...
That was clearly not Castro's intention. Complaining that too many Cubans were committing the sin of "trying to get rich individually," he launched a crackdown. He ordered the farmers' stands replaced by state-run enterprises that sometimes charge lower prices but, consumers now complain, offer much less variety. The new rules for dwellings did not preclude Cubans who want to profit from buying and selling their own homes. But in an effort to end the speculation that had begun creeping into the market, homeowners are now allowed to sell only to the government -- at its price. "The glories...
...Beautiful Woman, a glossy, color fashion bimonthly for larger women, the apparel industry has changed considerably from its thin old days. Then the belief was, as Shaw puts it, that "as you got fat, you got poor." Now the feeling is that nothing fosters growth -- and profits -- like a rich diet...
...socks, not for people doing real jobs. We don't plan to register." Complained an elderly woman who sells crocheted lampshades: "The inspectors will be poking around all the time. It will be a nightmare." Some entrepreneurs suffer an even worse nightmare. "Look at all the people who got rich during NEP," said a young artisan who makes and sells earrings. "A few years later they were | exiled to Siberia. You never know what's going to happen here...
...Britain in 1947. He subsequently attended the London School of Economics. In 1956 he moved to the U.S. and worked for ten years as a broker and stock analyst. In 1969 Soros started the fund that became Quantum with only $250,000. Members of the Rothschild family and other rich Europeans soon kicked in an additional $6 million. Since then the fund has grown mostly through reinvested profits. Because Quantum is registered outside the U.S., Soros and a few members of his Manhattan-based management team are its only American investors...