Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...District of Columbia, Ohio and Puerto Rico. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Hart practiced "retail politics," tirelessly addressing small audiences. The strategy paid off by winning enough votes in those states to rocket the Senator to national attention, but it will be of no use in the big, delegate-rich states to which the contest is now shifting. "There are more people who vote in my congressional district than vote in the whole of New Hampshire," says Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. "Illinois is an election?New Hampshire is a media event...
With its 725 million bbl. of proven and probable reserves in the continental U.S., Gulf is a particularly rich prize. But fending off Pickens for the past six months has taken its toll in employee morale. Says one insider: "There is a great deal of uncertainty, and with uncertainty has come concern...
...Grenada Yacht Club. This season's topsiders remain untouched by saltwater, but they have to sit around the club, fearful they might take one in the gut if they merely head out in the $50,000 yachts. Yachts they certainly have a right to sail. There's fairness for rich people too, you know...
...already been subtly put, money was all the word at this conference. Workshops on money and marketing were the best attended and, to all but one speaker, the foremost advice was to find a rich partner. "Have a rich Aunt Susie," advised a banker, a venture capitalist. "Let me tell you there is no better source of capital than being born into the right family, nothing better...
...rich range of options shows, closing the budget gap is not an economic or technical problem. It is a political problem. Voters, being human, want more benefits and fewer taxes, and politicians, being politicians, respond to the voters. Says the CBO's Penner: "All spending does some good for someone, and all taxes do some harm to someone. So there is never a good spending cut or tax increase in the eyes of the entire electorate...