Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward Abbey once said `Spend no time applying for gifts and grants--when we want money from the rich we'll take it by force. The honorable...
...government sources, speaking on condition they not be identified, confirmed a report in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday that the ruler of oil-rich Brunei, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, agreed to give millions of dollars to the Contras in Central America...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee is already investigating legal aspects of the arms shipments, and its members can expect to be joined soon by many other congressional probers. They will be mining a rich lode: the list of laws that might have been broken by the arms shipments to Iran, the diversion of funds to the contras, or both, is a long...
...hurries in late from an audition and rushes out again after the final "Amen." He has come here from New Hampshire, and he would be more comfortable with the simple liturgy of a New England Congregational church. What has really kept Buswell from fitting in, though, is his rich, resonant voice...
Stalin, Conquest says, viewed the country's 120 million peasants as irremediably hostile to the regime. Individualistic and intractable, they would have to be torn from their bit of private land and either tamed by force or annihilated. Stalin's first target was the kulaks, caricatured as rich, greedy and brutal farmers who lived off the labor of others. Actually, they were the hardest working and the most productive of the peasants. The wealth of the average kulak family consisted of one to three cows and ten to 25 acres of land. Nevertheless, beginning in 1929, more than 13 million...