Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expenditure of nearly $10 billion. In all likelihood, the Kissinger suggestions will also come to naught. Unfortunately, the Kissinger panel does not demand basic structural changes in Central American institutions, changes that could prevent more military governments from coming to power and that could reduce the gap between a rich minority and an impoverished majority...
...Indians across the West are asking for--and getting--hiring quotas at mining and drilling sites, special training programs, and education funds from the corporations they sell their resources to. In coal-rich Wyoming, tribes are renegotiating leases to get a larger share of the selling price for coal...
...though the band may present a harsh, discordant, and even at times bitter vision of life, they never resort to easy cynicism or nihilism. Thorough sheer commitment, and abrasive intensity this group might help to point the stagnant rock of the present in a direction that will become as rich and exciting as the punk movement from which it has broken away...
...rich, white, elite Harvard student, American style capitalism naturally seems like a bed of roses. Lieber and Bumgartner are prosperous, they can look forward to a promising future, and they do not feel the need to say or do anything that would get them in trouble with the police. But what about an unemployed Black auto worker in Detroit, or a Chicano alien in a sweatshop in L.A.? Ask a priest in El Salvador, or a diamond miner in South Africa what they think of the freedoms that Lieber and Bumgartner enjoy, and they will not know what...
...Colosseum./ You're the top!/ You're the Louvre Museum") is so firmly structured and so rich in comic invention that it has served parodists since...