Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fowles, entertainment need not be art, but art should always be in some sense entertaining. The Collector was both a taut psychological cliffhanger and a shattering study of good and evil. The Magus was both a love and adventure tale and an erudite venture into occult philosophy. Richer and more accomplished than either. The French Lieutenant's Woman seems destined to be a bestseller. It is the kind of work that helps give success a good name...
...asked to subsidize mass transit more than they are already doing. With this argument, Procaccino completely fails to realize that mass transit riders already pay a tremendous, almost incalculable subsidy to drivers: they travel in a crowded, dirty, sightless underground, while conceding the open air to their generally richer brethren. Similarly, pedestrians pay tribute to the automobile by gauging the erratic pace of their journeys to the cause of eased car travel...
...Idol. The decline only confirms a malaise that frustrated consumers have already sensed as they cope with power blackouts, telephone breakdowns, transportation delays and an increasingly paralytic postal service. For years, businessmen and politicians have worshiped economic growth. Today that idol is tarnished by inflation and pollution. "We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities," John Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, said last week in Washington, "until we reach a final state of affluent misery -Croesus on a garbage heap." Slower economic growth, which is part of the Administration's recipe for battling inflation, might also...
...storms that forever rage over foreign aid have all but obscured the fact that it is a relatively recent and radical experiment in international cooperation. Only for a couple of decades have the world's richer nations observed a general commitment to help the more than 100 less developed countries that embrace two-thirds of mankind. The results have been mixed, but there have been enough signs of success to merit strong support for the experiment. Yet after a year-long study sponsored by the World Bank, an eight-member commission headed by former Canadian Prime Minister Lester...
Silent Screen waltzed by the finish line eight lengths in front of Insubordination, the second horse. His performance may have cleared the foggy minds of the Arlington Park bettors, who had sent him off the third choice. He was $206,075 richer and "in oats" for a long time to come...