Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These themes are being stressed by Democratic candidates, including Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt, Joseph Biden, Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson. "When Rhodes scholars are arrested for insider trading, that contributes to this populist sentiment that a privileged class is getting rich at the expense of the rest of the economy," Babbitt says. Like most Democratic candidates, Babbitt is careful to focus his attacks on Wall Street and Big Business, as opposed to entrepreneurial and family businesses...
Anticipating worries that the plan would result in a few rich white cantons and many poor black ones, the book observes that there would be free movement of people, goods and capital among the cantons. "What people probably think is that the whites would take over Johannesburg and the gold mines around it," says Kendall. "No, that could not happen. There are so many black workers here that Johannesburg would have a black majority." Louw adds, "It would be an unambiguous handover of the rich areas to blacks. The only places there could be allwhite cantons would be in sparsely...
...school has the right idea--from each according to his means. But the right idea should apply not only to the public service types, but to the pre-rich set as well, and not only at the Law School but at all the professional schools...
...course each building's benefactors will maintain that their actions are purely altruistic--this is despite the fact that those of us not brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...
...junior-high English teacher always told me not to end a sentence in a proposition, but in this case I feel compelled--rich folk, how about spending your money on something slightly less self-aggrandizing like a blimp that flies above the yard with your family's last name spelled out in bright red neon letters...