Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family would save as a result of President Reagan's 10% tax-rate cut, which went into effect last Friday, never really expected their amendment to become law. Passed two weeks ago by House Democrats to dramatize their claim that the President's tax policies favor the rich and penalize the poor, the measure faced a Republican-controlled Senate and ultimately a presidential veto that Congress lacks votes to override. Last week, as expected, the Senate delivered the legislative coup de grâce to the cap by a 55 to 45 vote mostly along party lines. Observed...
Before the vote, Democrats, with partisan zeal, flogged the equity issue. Exclaimed Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who is running for President: "The President says that poor people must sacrifice. But what happens when Democrats say it's time for the rich to sacrifice? The President cries, 'Foul!' " Grumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It may have been a victory for the President, but it was a defeat for fairness." Senate Republican leaders delayed the vote to enable Reagan, at his televised press conference on Tuesday, to make the G.O.P. pitch. Insisting that the Senate preserve...
...ubiquitous grape-stomping. Remarkably enough, the village men and women boast wrinkles, bulges and (best of all) noses--Artifat's denizens look as though they were yanked off a Bruegel canvas, not a studio backlot. Enhanced by excellent costuming and set design, these characters present an unusually rich, as well as credible, glimpse into the past. The two leads both turn in strong, though less than stellar, performances...
...Yale graduates Bob Brooke and Bill Nichols, who will both play defense with Mark Fusco on the U.S. National Team; soon-to-be Princeton senior Ed Lee, a high-scoring wing; and three members of Providence College's most recent team--1983 graduate Kurt Kleinendorst and rising juniors Rich Costello and Paul Guay...
Monday's news gave Boston College rooters a lift as 1982 graduate Gary Sampson made the cuts, but it disheartened BU fans, whose 1983 captain Tom O'Regan was left out. Nine of ECAC Make the Grade Player College Bob Brooke Yale Rich Costello Providence Paul Guay Providence Mark Fusco Harvard Scott Fusco Harvard Kurt Kleinendorst Providence Ed Lee Princeton Bill Nichols Yale Gary Sampson Boston College