Word: richest
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...boosting exports. But because all the major economies are in decline at the same time, there is a marked dearth of buyers. Thus the rest of the industrial world can only fervently wish success for the moderately stimulative policies of Germany, Japan-and especially the U.S., by far the richest market...
...Secretary surely had in mind was Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud of Saudi Arabia, with whom he had ceremoniously sipped mint tea in Riyadh only six days before the King was assassinated last week. When he died at the age of 69, Faisal was not only among the richest men in the world, thanks to Saudi Arabia's incredible oil wealth, but one of its last absolute monarchs, and a powerful voice for conservatism in the Arab world...
AGAIN, ALMOST accidentally, the sheer triteness of Nilsson's script is often the richest source of humor. Oblio meets a heap of rocks, Rock Man (Gerald Bernstein), a "stone person" with a deep, throbbing double-bass of a voice and an endless stream of outdsted jargon, "Being a rock," he intones, "is a very...heavy...life. We rocks are impervious to heat. We...stay...cool," And his coolness increases, strangely enough in direct proportion to the number of his cliches, which come fast and furious. His advice to Oblio is to keep cool--like "Mother Nature sittin' at the console...
...interview scene by calling Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve Board "a national disaster" for his tight-money policies. And he dismisses Alan Greenspan, the chief of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, as an apostle of "economic Darwinism-you know, the survival of the richest...
...more sensitive than he ever could, or should, be. Jackie turns him down and departs for Acapulco with her rich investor. George is left on a small canyon hilltop with a beautifully sad Paul Simon melody underscoring his dubious desolation, inviting sympathy at what should have been the richest joke...