Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory at Nationals earned Harvard a berth in the Henley Regatta in England, an opportunity which four oarsmen in Harvard's championships eight will take advantage of. Rich Atkinson, Jamie Fargo, Paul Jeffrey and Campbell Rogers will compete as a foursome next week, joining the freshman heavyweight boat coached by Ted Washburn, which triumphed in the Eastern Sprints in May to garner a place in the regatta. Both boats stand an excellent chance to win their respective races...
...truly wealthy already got their bonanza a year ago, when the top rate on unearned income from investments was slashed from 70% to 50%. "If the Democrats succeed," said Marlin Fitzwater, a Treasury Department spokesman, "the real impact would be on the Middle American, because the rich and the poor already have their tax cuts...
...very often receive letters from young women wanting a job in broadcasting. The job that they want is mine. Many of the young women who write want to make a million dollars. These women don't want to be broadcast journalists; these women want to be rich. As a reporter, I have had a chance to observe people at the top of just about every field. And it makes no difference if they are male or female, black or white, old or young, the people I observed succeeding are those who have been taught or who teach themselves...
...include oblique denunciations of the Tory leader. A new West End musical, the earnest, tuneful Blood Brothers (book, music and lyrics by Willy Russell), charts the plight of twin boys separated at birth, one raised in the fetid poverty of the post-welfare state, the other by a scheming rich woman whom theatergoers will have no trouble recognizing as a caricature of the Iron Lady. However these dramatists voted last Thursday, they must be grudgingly grateful that their pet beastie will be around for a few more years. She is the noose they can pull around their tight little island...
...characters as they were in 1976, as they were refracted in Mehta's novel, as they will be distorted in the movie. He is even more interested in the need of both the Old World and the New to convert the other infidel and to sleep with the rich, silly American (who, the play suggests, will go to bed with any winner). As in Plenty, Hare is weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through his characters. Roshan...