Word: richest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...particular, his sophisticated political organization seems to have lost much of its lustre. The hallmark of that machine is the National Congressional Club, the richest political action committee in the country. Armed with a hefty war chest built up by direct mail fundraising, the club has backed Helms proteges around the country with money and technical assistance, utilizing the negative advertising tactics now common to the New Right. Its most significant victory was the 1980 election of archconservative John East to the second Carolina Senate seat. Although the incumbent. Robert Morgan, was no liberal, a blitz of last-minute television...
...average of 1.6 classroom computers for each of the nation's 82,000 public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that 80% of the country's 2,000 largest and richest public high schools now have at least one micro, while 60% of the 2,000 poorest schools have none. Says Market Data President Herbert Lobsenz: "If computers are the wave of the future, a lot of America is being washed...
Still, slang has deep resources. The French resist barbaric intrusions into the language of Voltaire and Descartes. But American English has traditionally welcomed any bright word that sailed in, no matter how ragged it may have looked on arrival. That Whitmanesque hospitality has given America the richest slang in the world...
...richest new territory for slang is computer technology. That is unexpected. Slang is usually thought of as a kind of casual conversation in the street, not as a dialogue between the human brain and a machine. Those who go mountaineering up the interface, however, are developing a wonderfully recondite vocabulary. Hackers (computer fanatics) at M.I.T. and Stanford maintain a Hacker's Dictionary to keep their common working language accessible to one another. Input and output have long since entered the wider language. So have software and hardware. The human brain in some circles is now referred to as wetware...
...there's still Daniel K. Ludwig, the richest man in America, who's spent the last several years trying to build a little empire in the South American jungle. Can't you just see an unstable fellow like that picking up the phone and offering Harvard a zillion dollars to rename South House North House...