Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North Dakota. "If I were making $400,000 a year, I'd be the biggest cheerleader for this in America." Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, co-sponsor of a Democratic tax-reform plan, said there was talk of adding either a fourth, higher rate, perhaps 40%, for the very rich, or providing a further break for the middle class. Said Gephardt: "We need to put our stamp on tax reform...
...rate would be a hefty 15 percentage points lower than the present maximum of 50%. Overall, the Treasury Department estimates, the plan would trim 5% from the tax bills of individuals by 1990; the biggest reductions would go to the very poor and the very rich. Reagan would eliminate many of the tax breaks that wealthy persons in particular use to shelter their income. At the same time, he would preserve three deductions that are immensely popular with the middle class and thus vital to the reform plan's chances of success: those for interest paid on primary home mortgages...
...gravel-voiced Jones has none of the polish of his machines. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and ill-fitting pants, gulps coffee, chain-smokes Pall Malls and often totes a Colt .45. "When I was broke, I was crazy; now that I am rich, I am eccentric," he declares. He is about 65 but refuses to confirm it. His motto for summing up his favorite pursuits: "Younger women, faster airplanes and bigger crocodiles." Jones has had five wives, all of whom he married when they were between the ages of 16 and 20. He lives with his current spouse Terri...
...greatest eavesdropper and scandalmonger of them all, as well as James Joyce, who, like so many of his fellow Dubliners, regarded rumor and innuendo as meat and drink. Still, her thesis holds. No one, from the whisperers about Socrates in ancient Athens to the viewers of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, could ever resist burbling about persons not present. If the rumors are written down, they are called gossip. If they are written up, they are called literature...
...younger sisters; the precocious girls watch porno videocassettes in their bedroom and assure Clay that they will not snitch any more cocaine from his room because they can now buy it on their own. Before too long, Clay faces the same daily decision that afflicts all of his rich L.A. friends: whether to get drunk or stoned or both...