Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
Junior Tom Konjoyan doubled in two runs, senior Rich Renninger walked with bases loaded, and sophomore Ted Decareau sacrificed to left field, as Harvard turned two hits and four walks into four runs and a 6-4 lead...
...customers include "convenience-store clerks and investment bankers." Not everyone is amused. Max Baril, chairman of the Rodeo Drive Association, the trade group for the chic thoroughfare, says the garbage idea stinks. Says he: "I take great offense that Mr. Gross calls our residents filthy." Not even filthy rich...
Poor Wall Street. In a slide that began with the stock-market crash 18 months ago, the get-rich-quick go-go years have faded into memory. No longer do brokerages open branches in every mall or freely lavish six-figure salaries on young talent. Gone are many of the yachts and the black-tie dinners -- along with more than 8% of the 260,000 employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged...
...enormous chunk of space rock hit the planet, the Alvarezes theorized, it would have largely disintegrated, casting a pall of iridium-rich dust and other debris over the world that could have lasted for months. Deprived of sunlight by this all-natural version of "nuclear winter," plants -- and the animals that fed on them -- would have died in droves. And when the dust finally settled, the iridium it contained would have formed just such a layer as the Alvarezes found...