Word: richer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Edelman earned a standing ovation in 1989 for her Radcliffe Medal acceptance speech, in which she urged Americans to put aside personal ambitions and greed to head off devastating poverty among children. She pointed out that children "are growing poorer while our nation is growing richer...
...poor are getting poorer," Edelman continued, "the rich are getting richer, pitting American against American, increasing our fears, our poverty rates, and our racial divisions...
Chayes cites the plethora of student activities and the strength of the Harvard faculty as reasons why "undergraduate life [today] is much richer intellectually...
...shares. The clerk presses a few buttons on his keyboard, and the deal is automatically made for $32 a share. Minutes later, the ex-machinist sells. "Hallelujah, I made an eighth of a point!" shouts Ciuffetelli. By day's end, 58 trades later and $900 richer, he is ready to return to his family's trailer home...
Photography: Julia Richer (Associate Editor); Eleanor Taylor, Karen Zakrison (Assistant Editors...