Word: richer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...depth of his tradition and wants to share it with his peers. In fact, that sentiment is perfectly in line with what Harvard is always encouraging us to do. Bring your diverse backgrounds, knowledge and experience to this campus, we are told, and the whole University will be the richer...
That's the problem with the rich being turned into issues in debates over economic policy. Any reform that will lead to greater national prosperity will also help the rich get richer. Short of a communist takeover, the rich seem to find ways to get richer no matter what. Therefore, to oppose a worthy reform just to tweak Forbes and deny him the goodies is foolish. But that is what Lewis seems to be doing as self-appointed tweaker...
With $5 trillion worth of government bonds outstanding, the bond market has siphoned away a huge amount of money that could have gone into the stock market, which has more important things to do than make Steve Forbes richer. It is the stock market that raises the capital to help new companies get started and old companies expand, both of which grease the economic skids and create jobs and incomes the government can tax. In fact, the only easy way out of the deficit mess, aside from printing extra dollars on the presses in the Treasury Department, is to speed...
...very effectively argue that he will balance the budget but not at the expense of senior citizens in the form of Medicare cuts or of the poor by removing social programs. Ads focusing on the fact that these painful cuts are paying for tax cuts that primarily help the richer members of society are political dynamite...
...thorny "Hammerklavier" Sonata, on the Chesky label, is grandly conceived and brilliantly executed, from the soulful (and lengthy) Adagio to the triumphant final Fugue, a supreme test of both fingers and musical intelligence. Wild's reputation may rest on his pyrotechnics, but his musical sensitivity is growing even richer with...