Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to be rich to go to Harvard," he added...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...
...what? Where is the harm? What is wrong with rewarding people, poor or not, for a dead relative's organ? True, auctioning off organs in the market so that the poor could not afford to get them would be offensive. But this program does not restrict supply to the rich. It seeks to increase supply...
...have been given much leeway in making welfare harder to get, the court indicated today that one impermissible way is to create two classes of citizens based on length of residency. In the words of Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the court: "Citizens of the United States, whether rich or poor, have the right to choose to be citizens of the State wherein they reside.... The States, however, do not have any right to select their citizens.... The Fourteenth Amendment, like the Constitution itself, was, as Justice Cardozo put it, 'framed upon the theory that the peoples...
...least, Episode 1 does offer a few new mysteries, presenting new races, worlds and a ridiculous new rabbit-like character, Jar-Jar, but these originalities are few and flaccid compared to the rich detail of the first movies. More often, Lucas simply resorts to twisting the plot which is mandated by the originals. Anakin has to marry someone in order to be Luke's father, thus in _Episode1_ he develops a budding affection for a queen, but she's twice his age. That--and new spaceships--is Lucas' current creativity...