Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Smith and Marcinkus in Rome. As recently as last May, Wilson called FBI Director William Webster to ask about the status of U.S. interest in the case. Wilson was also sternly warned by the State Department in December 1983 to avoid involvement in the case of Commodities Trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after being indicted in one of the biggest tax-fraud cases in U.S. history. Yet shortly after, Wilson met with a Swiss official on Rich's behalf...
...officials of oil-rich Kuwait, led by Defense Minister Sheik Salem al-Sabah, flew to Moscow last week on a ten-day arms-buying trip. High on the Kuwaiti shopping list were sophisticated SA-8 surface-to-air missiles, as well as shoulder-fired SA-7's, as substitutes for the Stinger anti-aircraft weapons that the Reagan Administration declined to supply last month on the grounds that Congress would veto the deal. The Soviets seemed happy to oblige: the two parties initialed a weapons-purchase agreement, although no details were announced...
...inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground...
...first entered the bay in 1608, was so taken with the "fruitful and delightsome" place that he declared, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation." H.L. Mencken, Baltimore's celebrated sage, was so impressed by the bay's rich marine life that he labeled it "an immense protein factory...
...comes from factories and municipal sewage-treatment plants. The nitrogen apparently enters the Chesapeake from farm fields and construction sites, which send fertilizers and soil into rivers and, ultimately, into the bay. Most of this nitrogen comes into the Chesapeake from the Susquehanna River. Flowing across Pennsylvania's rich farm country, the Susquehanna provides the bay with more than 40% of its fresh water and up to three-quarters of its nutrients...