Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know ... maybe there should be changes made. Maybe we shouldn't encourage military training to make rich men richer. There are probably things wrong with the administration, but the ill feeling is just too bad. Those kids had no right-I hope they take every damn one of them and expel them...
...businessmen, high rates distort decisions about how to invest, how to organize a company, how to reward employees. Companies in need of capital get a richer federal tax break when they issue bonds instead of stocks; they can deduct the interest on bonds from their taxable income, but dividends on stocks must be paid out of after-tax profits. This fact has stimulated the growth of conglomerate mergers, which the Government is now vigorously attacking (see following story). It is fairly cheap and easy for one company to finance the takeover of another by issuing interest-bearing securities of dubious...
...planet and the poor section is widening. Alas! the publisher has got it wrong on the cover. It isn't the case at all that world population is outstripping productivity. No, the point is that the poor parts of the world are getting poorer and the rich richer. That's one of the first premises--that things are getting worse...
...four days and three nights, coast to coast. In fairness to the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, one has to admit a limited nostalgia when looking back. The railroads could each you many things--you gained a sense of "the vastness of America," to which, your parents insisted, your richer classmates aboard those jets remained forever oblivious...
...Chicago Tribune and the New York Times, there are more openings for $15,000-a-year engineers and $10,000-a-year computer programmers than the work force can possibly fill. People are hopping from job to job as never before, always searching for-and usually getting -the richer reward. Some jobs, of course, pay conspicuously more than others. From campus to board room, there is increasing discussion about who gets how much...