Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were any lingering doubts about the deftness of the new leader of the Soviet Union, his performance in the interview with TIME should lay them to rest. He displayed bravura rather than boiler plate, and his performance was rich in the raw material of Kremlinology. Soviet-affairs experts all over the world will devote much of this week to a painstaking analysis of Mikhail Gorbachev's comments. They will be looking for insights into his personality and Delphic hints about the policies he intends to pursue...
Real as these perplexities are, it would be a shame if Fowles' potential audience were put off by them, for A Maggot is also an immensely rich, readable book, full of passages as haunting and provocative as anything in The Magus or The French Lieutenant's Woman...
...unarmed Babangida confronted rebellious army officers in Lagos during an attempted coup and persuaded them to surrender. It was he too who masterminded the army coup that, on the last day of 1983, toppled Shehu Shagari, the civilian President whose winking acceptance of endemic corruption had helped plunge oil-rich Nigeria into a still continuing spiral of poverty. Last week Babangida was in the vanguard of yet another takeover, only this time he took the prize for himself. In a carefully planned coup, the short, stocky general from central Nigeria was installed as President of Africa's most populous country...
...Reaganomics. In a joint statement, Democratic Congressmen Charles B. Rangel of New York and Robert T. Matsui of California noted that the 1984 poverty rate was higher than for any year from 1970 to 1980, that the rate for black children under six increased and that the gap between rich and poor was not getting narrower...
...declined. Despite the gains, some economists suggested that the benefits of the economic recovery were not evenly shared. Claimed Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has been highly critical of the President's policies: "The new Census data show that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is now wider than at any time since Census began collecting income-distribution data in 1947." Nor was Greenstein sanguine about the future. "It's a one-year drop," he said. "Unless we get an unusually robust economic growth, the poverty rate...