Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unfairness is of a type too familiar from earlier Administration policies. The rich, who do not need financial aid, can still refuse to register: only the poor will be forced to make the decision between education and the dictates of their consciences. That, of course, is the philosophical argument for enforcing the law through the courts. Linking compliance to any other action skews the group who will be held to the letter of the law. The main charge previously leveled against a volunteer armed force will in this manner become reality. If the rich can pay their...
...Democratic version: Californians are losing an exhilarating, compassionate leader, a pioneer in appointing women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians to help govern the nation's most populous state. They are getting, instead, a humdrum politician, one determined to protect the rich and turn back the clock on progress in civil rights and the environment...
...Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Catholic. Trudeau has argued that Canada must stress profits, wage restraints, investment and productivity. Challenging those priorities, the commission condemns "the renewed emphasis on the 'survival of the fittest' as the supreme law of economics" and asks for controls on profits, soak-the-rich taxation, a bigger role for labor unions and government programs to create jobs...
Most of Levine's life has been spent counting successes. Born in Cincinnati, a city with a rich musical heritage, young Jimmy Levine could pull himself up to the family Chickering piano and pick out tunes before he was two years old. When little more than an infant, he once astonished his father, a former bandleader, by spotting the rhythm of Mary Had a Little Lamb when it was idly drummed on a tabletop. Piano lessons came at four, recitals at six. In 1953, age ten, he made his debut with the Cincinnati Symphony, performing Mendelssohn's Piano...
...grew as the Interstates made possible long daily commutes. A nation of indefatigable cross-country travelers could thoroughly indulge its passion for movement. Still, this remarkable, concrete achievement rarely inspires pride or awe. A high-speed trip down an Interstate, its fringes bare of shops and homes, is seldom rich with incident. Life begins at the exit ramp. Rosemarie Clark knows; she maps travel routes for members of the A.A.A. in Topeka, Kans. Says Clark: "We get a lot of people who come in and say, 'No Interstates.' They want to see America...