Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rent a better apartment, Khashoggi purchased two trucks that he leased to the owner of a small construction company for $125 a month. "I used to get $225 a month from home," he remembers. "So, my income rose to $350 a month. I became a rich student." He promptly moved to a hotel, hired a female student to do chores and type his papers, and began to give elegant soirees, replete with polished silver, pressed linen and fresh flowers...
...Duarte is confronted by another challenge, this time from right-wing parties that are loudly demanding his ouster. Their primary beef: a new government war tax aimed at the rich and big business. Whether or not they can inflict damage on Duarte is unclear, but the campaign could backfire. Since the new tax is intended to aid the military in its six-year-old struggle against leftist rebels, right-wingers may soon find themselves pitted against the army, a former ally they can hardly afford to antagonize...
...deep in debt, thanks to legal expenses, and sent him reeling into five years of psychoanalysis. Awful, but for the sake of the narrative not bad. Right about here a reversal of fortune would do nicely. So our hero wrote Portnoy's Complaint (1969), the novel that made him rich, famous and controversial. Goodbye, Columbus and Portnoy were snapped up by Hollywood. And then . . . and then Roth fell in love with a movie star...
Until early 1968, Vietnam had been called a rich man's war. The poor had been sent to fight while communities like Harvard were accused of letting the war remain an academimc topic...
...these antigens were genetically controlled, there was no way to remove them from the cell," says Kevin Lafferty, an Australian-born immunologist who is director of research at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes in Denver. In 1980, however, Lafferty discovered that culturing islet cells in an oxygen-rich environment for a couple of weeks kills those that bear trigger antigens. Says Calvin Stiller, an immunologist at the University of Western Ontario: "This cultured fetal tissue can be transplanted with impunity...