Word: richest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drenching her face in water fountains, and the Asian exchange student whose name--Long Duck Dong--alone should demonstrate the racist stereotyping of his character. Equally cardboard is Jake's beautiful but shallow girlfriend, who tells Jake: "I fantasize that I'm your wife and we're like the richest, most popular adults in town...
...more tax relief for the working poor. But the evidence marshaled by the supply-siders indicates that the wealthy are not getting a free ride at the expense of the poor. Despite the rhetoric that President Reagan is a "reverse Robin Hood," the share of taxes paid by the richest Americans is on the rise...
Though simple and evenhanded, the Hall-Rabushka plan has at least two features that probably doom it politically. First, it calls for a low 19% tax rate on even the richest of taxpayers. Second, it does away with many tax preferences, like the deduction of mortgage interest, that millions of Americans rely upon...
...were given special representation in elected bodies. With independence, those privileges were lost, and the Sikhs became politically subservient to the Hindu majority. Soon they began agitating for their own state. In 1966 they were given Punjab by the federal government. Although that state has India's richest, most fertile land, the Sikhs still felt their portion was too small compared with that of neighboring Haryana, the state created at the same time for the Hindus. Therefore, the Akali Dal Party, the political arm of the Sikhs, began an insistent drumbeat of peaceful protest. In 1973 the Akalis passed...
...Escalón creep up the sides of a volcano, still challenging risk. The inhabitants-landowners, entrepreneurs, professionals, businessmen-have grown accustomed over the past decade to the hazard of assassination attempts and kidnapings. Their homes have been surrounded by high walls, barbed wire and searchlights, and the richest among them move about town in armored Cherokees, accompanied by bodyguards. These vehicles have come to be a status symbol, and Salvadorans laugh at the many parvenus who buy them not out of fear for the guerrillas but because of a desire to seem important. Most of the residents support...