Word: riche
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Social Issues. The Reagan recovery has not been universal. According to several studies the gap between rich and poor, black and white, is growing. This societal wound could create a dangerous polarization betwen classes and races. Reagan has talked vaguely about helping the poor catch up, but he has cut back on antipoverty programs and affirmative action. Congress has so far rejected his plan to create "enterprise zones" to draw business into depressed areas with tax breaks and other incentives. Reagan is not likely to suggest much else to help the left-behind in a second term unless Congress makes...
...York City. Could it be? Yes, it is! "Marco Santorelli," she cries. "We danced on the boat coming over!" Marco, an Italian immigrant who is working his way up in the trucking business, has just had a coincidental reunion of his own-with Maud Charteris (Faye Dunaway), a rich actress for whom he once worked as a gardener in Italy. And talk about a small world: Marco's friend Jake, a Russian Jew who came over on that same crowded boat, hears the tinkle of a ragtime piano while strolling through Harlem. Darned if it isn't Roscoe...
...some fifteen feet. The medical and psychiatric interviews of Hinckley climbed into the hundreds of hours. The cost of the month and a half long trial totalled some two and a half to three million dollars, with federal charges at least three times that spent by the oil-rich Hinckleys...
...that widespread and misinformed public opinion. Caplan's treatment of the insanity defense aims at discouraging us from seeing the defense as one or all of the following: an overused and therefore dangerous "legal loophole" (the words are, ironically, Richard M. Nixon's): a play-trial toy of the rich (the usual tabloid lore), or, thirdly, a legal contradiction (the view of behaviorists, who see free will as an illusion and absolve guilt for behavior caused by external forces. Such thinkers feel the judiciary must either bring the perpetrators of anti-social behavior into line by way of drugs, psychosurgery...
...terms of ideologies, Hsiao and Yang both prefer socialism since "It is more equal in China, there isn't a part so rich and a part so poor." The obvious disadvantage is the lack of work incentive--"whether you work hard or you work lazy, you get the same in the end," Hsiao says...