Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Front Man. Richer pickings were to come. Sage expanded his moneylending business (sometimes extracting interest as high as 80%), barely escaped serving a jail term for usury, supplied money to both Vanderbiit and Gould in their battle for control of the Erie Railroad, netted $10 million in ten days during the Panic of 1873, and most important, acquired the brilliant, heaviIy indebted Gould as front man and junior partner...
...Other, richer employers set up trusts to provide retirement incomes for servants, write legacies into their wills, and hand out handsome Christmas bonuses. But most people have given up on full-time help. And the "daily" is all too often not as daily as she should be- absent by reason of mysterious seizures, or late because of traffic jams. One of the real problems is the time and effort it takes to travel between the poor sections of the city, where the servants live, to the spreading suburbs, where the jobs are. In most areas, the only live-in helps...
Residents of the area have vocifer ously opposed the project since its inception, and last winter leaders of the anti-renewal war vowed that they would resist eviction bodily. Anti-renewal signs reading "To Hell with Urban Renewal" and "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Homeless" are posted on many of the homes...
...maneuver served its purpose: for the barest instant. Dapper Dan flinched and broke stride-and in that instant Tom Rolfe won the race. Milo Valenzuela, who rode Dapper Dan, claimed foul. The stewards did their duty: they thought about it for 15 min. before they disallowed the claim. Richer by $12,810, his 10% cut of the winner's purse, Jockey Turcotte cheerfully admitted: "I really closed the gate on that other horse...
...along for the ride. Some ride. Piloting five Maseratis, a Buick Riviera and a Cadillac as if they had all Araby to maneuver in, they have careered into two pedestrians, busted a bus, wrecked a private car and demolished a lamppost. After all, the more gas they burn, the richer they...