Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful in being admitted to both Stanford and Harvard. Yet my chances of attending either are slim. These institutions, as well as the College Scholarship Service, determined that I could afford to finance my education. As it now stands, the rich can manage. The poor are helped along. But those of us in the middle class get squeezed...
...only about $6 billion in federal revenue savings. But the Democrats had more in mind than painting themselves as deficit fighters. "It is time that the burden of Reaganomics is shared by those in the upper-income groups," O'Neill declared. "This has been a program of the rich, by the rich and for the rich." Retorted Reagan: "I'll give him my autograph on the veto bill...
Webster is the richest, greediest man in the world. How rich? He has his own MX missile; he schusses down a private ski run atop his skyscraper penthouse; he has never worn the same pair of socks twice. How greedy? He almost corners the coffee-bean market by directing one of his satellites to beam down a hurricane on Colombia (where, he notes wryly, "coffee is one of the two major crops"). Then, when Superman foils his scheme, Webster uses Gus' computer skills to discover virtually all the elements of Kryptonite. It is when Gus improvises the last unknown...
...church. An inquisition is raging against heretics, casting a dark and menacing shadow over the whole era. The Emperor in Milan and the Pope in Avignon are battling for ascendancy over the Holy Roman Empire. The Emperor, Louis IV, has sent William to the abbot of a rich and powerful Benedictine monastery in Italy on a mission of conciliation. The Franciscan and Adso arrive at the abbey right after the body of a young monk has been discovered. Suicide or murder is suspected. The abbot, aware of William's skills at detection, persuades him to investigate the death...
...life's delightful juxtapositions, reasonable people are capable of making memories of events that occurred years before they were born, never letting a technicality that slight exclude them from an argument as rich as the "long count" fight of 1927. Failing to withdraw to a neutral corner, as a new rule required after knockdowns, Dempsey inadvertently allowed Tunney perhaps 14 seconds to defog his head in the seventh round and go on to outpoint Jack for a second time. "The best thing that ever happened to both of us was the long count," Dempsey said a few years...