Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quarterback is rich in experience with last year's starter, John McGeehan, back in blue and red, Junior Jim Crocicchia, who ably backed up McGeehan a year ago and even engineered one of Penn's wins, is also there...
...Orange County in California to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City to a B'nai B'rith meeting in Washington. He poked and prodded, looking for soft spots. To a group of grocery workers in Compton, Calif., he portrayed Reagan as the friend of the rich, and tried hard to show his own indignation. "I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm damn mad," he insisted, looking pained. But speaking in Cupertino, Calif., the day before, Reagan had simply scoffed at "that pack of pessimists roaming the land" and turned...
Pulling out charts and graphs at the Compton, Calif., gathering, Mondale hammered home on the "fairness issue, charging that the Administration's tax cuts are "tilted toward Mr. Reagan's rich friends." Using figures provided by the Washington-based Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and congressional sources, he showed that Reagan actually raised taxes 22% for those earning less than $10,000 a year, while families making between $20,000 and $30,000 "stayed even." By contrast, those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 got an 8% tax cut, worth $8,916 a year. Mondale promises...
Mondale pursues the blue-collar middle class with his charts and graphs showing that the rich directly benefited the most from the Reagan tax cuts. "We've got to force them to figure out who's on their side," says a Mondale aide. "They must ask the question: Who cares about people like you? Despite his statements, Mr. Reagan has provided them with no tax relief...
...expected to rule soon on a longstanding fishing dispute between Nova Scotia and the New England states. The U.S. has laid claim to all of the Georges Bank, off the Massachusetts coast, while the Canadians contend that about half the bank belongs to them. The contested area is rich in scallops and other seafood (the annual harvest totals some $75 million), and may also hold abundant reserves of oil and natural...