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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is more at risk than the dislocation of business as usual. Many experts believe the financial stability and national security of whole countries will be in jeopardy until the problem is solved. Says the head of the Italian treasury police, General Luigi Ramponi: "Now that they are too rich, the drug lords will start investing everywhere: in industry, in the stock market." In the U.S. some lawmakers have begun worrying about the impact of billions of drug dollars invested in U.S. institutions and wonder what influence the drug barons might eventually exert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...Reagan tax breaks weighted in favor of the rich, the cuts in social welfare programs, the statistics on the growing inequality of income distribution in the U.S. and the routine tales of Wall Street corruption defined, for many Americans, the ethos of the 1980s...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...this the place to settle the argument about whether the country is actually becoming more polarized along economic lines. Democrats worry that the "middle class," as defined in terms of income, is shrinking. Republicans say that if it is, it's because so many people are getting rich. These debates could continue forever without any certain conclusion...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...coincidence of the rebirth of greed with what President Bush is fond of calling "the longest-lived economic expansion in post-war history," (paid for, not incidentally, by the largest debt in human history) has covered this ethos in a cloak of morality. "Some people may be getting obscenely rich, but at least the country as a whole is benefiting...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...Matt Mallgrave 8 1 1 2 5 10 Scott Barringer 6 0 2 2 2 4 Steve Flomenhoft 9 0 2 2 3 6 Brian McCormack 9 1 0 1 4 8 Chuckie Hughes 3 0 1 1 1 2 Kevin Sneddon 9 0 1 1 1 2 Rich DeFreitas 9 0 0 0 3 6 Craig Miskovich 2 0 0 0 1 2 Brian Popiel 9 0 0 0 4 8 Totals 9 40 70 110 93 2 15 Opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hockey Statistics | 12/14/1989 | See Source »

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