Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard took less than an hour to wrap up its second consecutive triumph of the young season, losing only one set during the entire competition. Fern Ward's 15-4, 15-10, 15-8, decision over Brown's Laura Rich in the fifth match clinched the victory...
Auction fever has also been fueled by the stock boom, which has created a new class of mega-rich Americans, some of whom are doubtless more interested in the prestige that comes with the ownership of art than they are in the art itself. "A few years ago, there was only a handful of people who could bid $1 million," says Art Dealer Richard Feigen. "Today you have unlimited billions, and at every one of these sales there are new faces...
...their normal habits of mind and behavior can only mislead them. Doubtless he saw Allie as a bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie is a compendium of the cliches of liberaloid social criticism, rich in potential self-parody. For besides creating an Eden for his family, Allie has another, grander dream: the construction of a huge ice-making facility he has designed. Surely there is something funny about a man building an ice palace to serve a few hundred natives who have happily survived...
After Connally, 69, failed to get out of the starting gate for the 1980 G.O.P. presidential nomination, he returned home with the idea of becoming what Texans call "big rich." He was already worth about $6 million -- cattle feed by local standards. But Big John saw no end to the twin booms in oil and real estate, and aimed to parlay his connections and powerful salesmanship into serious money...
Houlihan supervised a group of older students at the Institute who recently completed interviews with 103 of the neighborhoods' 1700 elderly residents. He said the study found that many older residents fear crime and loneliness, and often must leave their homes because they are "house-rich and cash-poor...