Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More broadly, Reagan vowed to maintain a posture of maximum flexibility. A key Reagan adviser paraphrased the President as saying: Look, I am ready for a very rich discussion with the other side on arms control. But after this long hiatus, we first have to clear the air. We have to see if they're ready to talk seriously on several problems...
...stocks to farmers who agreed to keep some of their fields fallow, cost $9.7 billion in 1983. Last week the President recalled those and other Administration policies that helped farmers: lifting the embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union, eliminating estate taxes for widowed spouses (important to land-rich farmers) and getting Japan to double its imports of American beef...
...School and Bryn Mawr, entered politics late in life, having raised four children before she started law school in Philadelphia at age 40. Her volunteer effort for the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign won her a high-level appointment to the Agency for International Development in Washington in 1981. Rich, well bred and painstakingly polite, Du Pont hopes to coast in on the President's popularity in the conservative state. She has been coached on tax cuts and the balanced-budget amendment by G.O.P. Supply-Siders Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich...
...National Union of Mineworkers, was formed in 1982. The walkout at gold and coal mines was called off at the last minute, however, when management agreed to raise the workers' holiday pay. But word of the compromise evidently did not reach all the mines, and throughout the gold-rich Transvaal and Orange Free State some 40,000 blacks refused to go underground for their usual shifts. When they did not disperse, police riot squads moved in, and the angry miners responded with showers of stones. In two days of such confrontations, seven blacks were killed and more than...
...literary New York, it was the equivalent of somebody's winning the state lottery. A middle-aged novelist, burdened with debts, a leaky roof and a bruised ego, suddenly found himself celebrated and rich. It was as sudden as the surprise phone call that informed William Kennedy, 56, that the MacArthur Foundation was giving him one of its "genius awards": $264,000 tax free with no strings attached...