Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the dialogue on the history of South Africa Leonard Thompson, a Yale professor, gave a chronology of major events in South Africa's history. He stressed that the nation had a rich history prior to 1652, when whites from Holland settled there...
...President Bok received national attention for his annual report, which criticized the legal profession and law schools for paying too much attention to the rich. "Beyond education and research, law schools can also help to create new institutions more efficient than traditional law firms in delivering legal services to the poor and middle class," Bok wrote...
Those troublesome debates delayed consideration of a favorite Commonwealth topic: a "new world economic order" that would allow fairer distribution of resources to poorer nations. The Commonwealth is not a rich man's club: its countries include 80% of all people in the world earning less than $200 a year. In the economic arena, too, disenchantment with the U.S. was in evidence. In a report to his colleagues, Shridath Ramphal, 55, a former Guyanese Foreign Minister who serves as the Commonwealth's secretary-general, decried "the tendency of the United States, the world's richest nation...
...would suggest that economic pressure will find and foremost hurt the rich and the affluent otherwise they would not constantly and consistently protest that it will hurt the Blacks. Such sentiments of concern sound hollow in a society where as Carsten shows people are classified by race and discrimination is a way of life...
...these troubles have plunged the gulf states into a unique recession. On the one hand, budgeted government spending, which fuels the economies of the area, has followed the path of energy earnings and taken a tumble. In Saudi Arabia (pop. 9.7 million), the largest and most energy rich of the Arab gulf nations, officials have allocated $75.4 billion for the current fiscal year, down 17% from the previous period. But the region's wealth remains so great that such cutbacks have not yet caused much hardship. "The gold rush is over," says one U.S. diplomat stationed in the area...