Word: riches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Together with those freedom- and justice-loving citizens of the world, we do at the same time, however, note that at the end of this century--a century which humanity entered with such high hopes for progress--the world is still beset by great disparities between the rich and poor, both within countries and between different parts of the world...
...three hundred years this great institution has served its nation with distinction. We enter the new millennium in the hope that the rich fruits of learning, science and technological progress will be in this coming century truly be shared by all in this global village in which we live...
...issue. He's adamant that the real value today is in the little stocks, and he's confident that some will grow to be big ones. You have to get the next Ciscos and Intels precisely when they are not hot if you are ever going to get rich at this game...
Berg had the full cooperation of the Lindbergh family and access to some 2,000 boxes of Charles and Anne Lindbergh's personal papers. His use of this rich material is masterfully judicious. Lindbergh possessed a complex character that was part genius mechanic and part mystic. All his life he demonstrated a surprising, inner-directed capacity for intellectual growth. In the last decades of his life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world...
...striped pants." Richard Nixon spoke of Acheson's "Cowardly College of Communist Containment." In retrospect, the abuse seems odd; Acheson proved a tough, decisive realist who welded together the alliance that successfully contained the Soviet bloc until it self-destructed in 1989. Acheson handsomely reproduces the postwar era, the rich supporting cast and a sometimes surprising protagonist who, for all his bespoke elegance and fop's mustache, knew how, occasionally, to throw a punch and how to function otherwise in a dangerous world...