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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House Ways and Means Committee, Illinois' Dan Rostenkowski, suffered a stinging setback when six committee Democrats joined all 13 Republicans to help Bush redeem a campaign pledge to reduce this tax. Although Democrats denounced the idea in last year's presidential campaign as a giveaway to the rich (60% of its benefits will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000), the measure is expected to pass in the House. Mitchell vows to try to derail it in the Senate, but he is without the support of Texas' Lloyd Bentsen, who as chairman of the Finance Committee could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And on Capitol Hill | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Duke University, he might have been rated a Big Man on Campus. Enrolled in 1987 in the continuing- education program, he quickly became a campus celebrity. His moniker helped. The short, wavy-haired chap with the cosmopolitan air just happened to be Maurice de Rothschild, wayfaring scion of the rich and illustrious French banker, Baron Guy de Rothschild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Scam on Campus | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

Jeffrey Montgomery, 25, a California entrepreneur, is often compared with Richie Rich, the towheaded, chubby-cheeked comic-book character. They both have wealthy fathers: Montgomery's is James Montgomery, chief executive of Great Western, a financial-services company. And Jeffrey is just as precocious as Richie. Last month young Montgomery paid $6 million to buy Harvey Publications, which owns the rights to Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey and other characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMIC BOOKS: Richie Rich Finds a Friend | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...groups but in mainstream advertising as well. Revlon's Most Unforgettable Woman of 1989, chosen in a search across the U.S., is Mary Xinh Nguyen, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American from California. Such companies as Du Pont, Citibank and Delta Air Lines have populated current ads with a rich variety of blacks, Asians and Hispanics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Small World After All | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...just another case of the rich getting richer," Boston College Coach Jim O'Brien said. "The lesser teams work hard trying to get the other team's big men out of the game and now this just increases the better team's chances...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: No More Tee-Time For College Kickers | 9/22/1989 | See Source »

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