Word: richer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gentleman of 74. "Hispanic and Anglo children alike are excited about what's happening, and a lot of the rest of us are too. But I'm being selfish about it. I know these children are here to stay--as butchers, Realtors, car salesman, physicians--and Dalton is a richer place because...
...buying American. There is an enticing market there of 1.2 billion people, but most U.S. trade with China runs the other way. The deficit is running at $4.3 billion because Americans buy 70% of their low-end consumer goods, like shoes, toys and textiles, from China, which has replaced richer Asian nations as the cheapest supplier (which keeps U.S. inflation down). What America mainly sells to the Chinese is high-value-added items like machinery, aircraft and transportation equipment, a few big-ticket sales that don't begin to penetrate to China's exploding consumer class...
...Jennifer, the conscience-stricken mother, the party's still not over. Another crank-warped week has passed; another Friday night has rolled around; and though she's thinner, paler and less coherent, she's feeling considerably richer owing to the arrival this morning of her monthly child-support check. Swaying nautically on her favorite barstool, she reports that she has made some changes in her life in the past few days. She's moved out of her parents' place, leaving her daughter behind, and has taken up residence in a rented house with two male roommates who share her taste...
...after, Rudenstine will return to Mass. Hall with the largest endowment in higher education, the bulliest pulpit in American academia and no more excuses. With the campaign over, he will have face up to a legacy deficit: Harvard's 26th president will be richer than God and about as invisible...
...While richer tenants could afford the increase in rent--which has increased an average of 15 percent since the end of rent control--and Cambridge's public housing was assisted with state aid, those in the lower-middle income bracket frequently left the city in search of cheaper quarters...