Word: riche
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...Rich Dolesh, chief of public policy for the National Recreation and Park Association in Washington, D.C., says additional funding options for state parks could include transferring certain operations to municipal governments (which aren't exactly flush with cash these days) and increasing park-generated revenue for everything from campsites to dog-walking permits (which would make park visitors foot more of the bill for using public space...
...there are other, less familiar historical moments that also have unmistakable resonance with the present. We've just finished living through a long Gilded Age, in which rich Americans got richer, and more and more people began consuming conspicuously. The original Gilded Age began a century earlier, in the 1870s, during a laissez-faire boom that lasted - déjà vu! - from the end of one Wall Street and banking meltdown (the Panic of 1873) to the beginning of another (the Panic...
...Here's a tip, folks: zombiemania will never last. It may be as urgent as the Birther movement, but it has no more validity. Don't fall for a fad; stick with a quality monster, which has a rich history in literature and cinema, and which keeps producing attractive variations. I speak of the vampire, as exemplified by Park Chan-wook's terrific new South Korean film, Thirst. (See TIME's Video: 10 Questions For Stephenie Meyer...
...after you think great thoughts, you still need to get noticed. Without famous professors to call or rich donors to beckon, you place all your chips on one thing: the mail. Thankfully, a few of your envelopes breathe fresh air. The media, like “The Hartford Courant” or WDRC, report your efforts; they’re amazed someone bothered to look that stuff...
Protests occurred near many central squares, including Ferdowsi, Tajrish and Punak, and throughout the Abbas Abad neighborhood surrounding the Mosalla. According to eyewitnesses, there were demonstrations outside the capital as well: in Rasht in northern Iran, oil-rich Ahvaz in the west and Isfahan in central Iran...