Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowing at a consistent 37 strokes per minute, the Harvard crew of Neil Olsen, Dan Grout, Arthur Hollingsworth, George Hunnewell, Rich Kennelly, Curt Pieckenhagen, Andrew Hawley, Andy Sudduth at stroke and Mahony at cox kept pulling further away and Princeon's challenge fell by the wayside in the final part of the race...
...behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number 6 million would participate in the game." Arnie Wexler, a recovering compulsive gambler and the head of the New Jersey chapter of the National Council, asserted that the chances of hitting...
...French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main interior space may seem too authentic: the muddy green and stained-glass glow and riot of gold are, all together, extremely rich. The room's Gilded Age swank is gorgeous, not inspiring...
...board's hand was forced by a hostile takeover bid by two producers: Norman Lear, creator of the TV series All in the Family, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, promoter of the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight. As principals in cash-rich L.P. Media, Lear and Perenchio had offered $1,000 a share for ENA stock last month. That offer alone was enough to roil the Scripps family: ENA stock had been selling sporadically at only $150 a share two years ago. Late last year, in an attempt to placate family members disgruntled over the stock's performance, Clark bought back...
Lotto mania grips New York with get-rich-quick fever...