Word: richer
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America cannot, however, sacrifice having both both parties present their candidates and platforms to the national audience out of fear that the richer party will always win. The electorate has a right to information during a campaign and can no longer obtain it simply in whistle-stop speeches. An effective means of assuring major parties equal opportunity to state their case must be found...
...even more warmly. Once, when a playing-card maker complained that Bernardino's antigambling crusade was ruining his business, the saint suggested that he switch to making cards bearing the Greek monogram of Jesus Christ, IHS. Bernardino plugged the symbol in his sermons, and the card manufacturer waxed richer than ever...
Iraq. Syria's larger and richer eastern neighbor (pop. 5,200,000) has long been the only strongly pro-Western Arab state. This is largely the doing of astute old Premier Nuri es-Said, 68, once an officer in the Ottoman army. His country is oil prosperous, and invests 70% of its royalties in soundly planned long-range improvements (dams, irrigation, schools). But the mobs in the streets, stirred by Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios, denounce Nuri es-Said as a British stooge. Last week open trouble broke out. For six days Arabs demonstrated in the holy city...
...feed for herds and flocks to supplement pasturage, the per-animal yield of meat or wool is less than it should be. Uruguay's basic economic need is a double agrarian reform: 1) an education program to teach ranchers how to conserve their soil and get a richer return from it, and 2) a shift of welfare-state burdens from the countryside to the cities. Instead, the politicos in Montevideo, hoping that forced-draft industrialization will eventually rescue the economy, have spun an increasingly tangled web of stopgaps, subsidies and controls...
...Sarah's smile Anne was prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home, began his unrivaled series of British military triumphs...