Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elated: each will receive $263,095 a year, minus the 20% federal tax bite, for the next 21 years. Shortly after hearing that she had won, Weonta Fitzgerald, 64, quit her job as a cleaning woman at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. "I was broke, now I'm rich!" she exulted. But the biggest winner by far did not have to wait in line: New York State, which stands to reap an estimated $11 million in education funds from that one giant jackpot alone. In fact, ticket sales are so brisk that this year the state figures to rake...
...Aubuisson has never been conclusively linked to death squad atrocities. He retired after the 1979 coup, but within weeks he was appearing on television, his time paid for by rich landowners, naming opponents inside and outside the new government as "subversives." A disturbing trend developed: some of those he mentioned were murdered shortly afterward. Calling D'Aubuisson "a pathological killer," former U.S. Ambassador Robert E. White has accused him of masterminding the March 1980 assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. White could never prove his charge, but allegations continue to haunt D'Aubuisson and his associates. Several members...
...spent most of its time since its founding in 1945 in relative obscurity. As the international lender of last resort, the IMF grants short-term loans for three to five years from its $35 billion lending pool to help nations finance temporary trade imbalances. The IMF deals with rich and poor countries alike. In the mid-1960s, for example, Britain borrowed some $3 billion to deal with its severe balance of payments problems...
...have turned the IMF into the Third World's principal banker. After OPEC quadrupled oil prices in 1973, developing countries like Brazil borrowed heavily from private banks, in part to pay their steep oil bills. Meanwhile, Mexico and other poor countries with large oil reserves felt themselves suddenly rich and sought money to finance ambitious development projects...
...banks were sharply curtailing Third World lending. By then it was clear that those countries had difficulties even paying interest on their loans. Not only were they already deeply in debt, but their economies were slowing down because of recession in the industrialized nations. Oil-rich developing countries were also strapped for cash as oil prices dropped...