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Word: riche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everyone I talk to has the same feeling, that there is something sick about a society where you can get filthy rich by doing this sort of deal," said MIT's 1987 Economics Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow in the same article. "It is an activity about as far from Florence Nightingale as you can get, and that is what underlies the discomfort people feel...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Harvard's Double-Stuff Deal | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...

Author: By Robert Nadeau, | Title: The Painted Dish | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...Lawrence Lindsay, an adviser to Vice President George Bush and Robert Kuttner, a pro-Michael S. Dukakis columnist, debated the future economic course of this country at the Kennedy School. They talked a lot about the trade debt, the budget deficit and the impact of proposed programs on the rich and middle class...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Cease-Fire on Poverty | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

Diamonds, the crystalline form of carbon, are usually formed when organic solids are subjected to intense heat and pressures. But under the right conditions, the glittering crystals can also be manufactured from a carbon- rich gas -- something the Navy's lab has in abundant supply. Its facilities abut Washington's giant Blue Plains Waste Water Treatment Plant, which each day generates 650,000 cu. ft. of methane (CH4). Tapping that supply, chemist James Butler passed a sample of the gas over a filament of tungsten glowing at 4,000 degrees F. To his delight, a sparkling film of synthetic diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Say It with Sewage Gas | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Squares have no definite plans in mind, but wouldn't argue if they became rich and famous. "If I could have my wish, we would be signed with a major recording label. You never can tell. Stranger things have happened," said Sagawa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

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