Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Campaign finance reform laws do recognize, however, that the equation of money with speech is fundamentally undemocratic. The current campaign finance system accords an unjust amount of power to the rich. Political donations are a form of speech, to be sure, but $5 contributions are meaningless when dwarfed by $10,000 contributions from wealthy individuals. If anything, it is the current system that is restricting the right to free speech...
...early retirees are by no means all rich. Edith Flowers Kilgo, 52, of Jonesboro, Ga., is a former free-lance writer and a university-press editor at Georgia State University who retired in 1994 to share her special expertise: saving money. Kilgo is publisher of the bimonthly newsletter Creative Downscaling, in which she passes on ideas gleaned from her own life-style, including the best way to purchase used cars, plus tips on buying clothes (wait for end-of-season sales) and making your own snacks. "I grew up in poverty as the daughter of sharecroppers," says Kilgo, whose husband...
...megayield critical and commercial success of The Bonfire of the Vanities in 1987 made Tom Wolfe a rich and very gratified author indeed. That big, boisterous novel, his first, proved a point that he had been arguing, much to the annoyance of literary folks, for years: American fiction could still portray the hectic complexities of contemporary social life, could still capture the textures and rhythms of a seething modern city, if novelists would just leave their desks, maybe take a sabbatical from their professorships in creative writing and go out and report on the fabulous stuff taking place all around...
...Clay Sr.'s blather, and there is nothing left about their son not to like. At which point Remnick trips, for the first and only time, on his way out the door by tacking on a routine death-of-boxing editorial that is simply not big enough for the rich, reverberant world he has just given us. Fortunately, it comes much too late to harm a most excellent book...
High blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease, may also be a risk factor for Alzheimer's, according to preliminary research. To drive down your homocysteine levels, eat foods rich in folate and B12--such as leafy veggies and egg yolks--and, of course, don't smoke...