Word: richest
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...Congressional Budget Office shows that $50 billion could be saved in the 1981 budget, and fully $544 billion over the following five years, by trimming such boondoggles as impact aid for schools, a program that dishes out tens of millions of dollars yearly to some of the richest school districts in the nation. Carter aides last week were examining potential cuts in Social Security programs, food stamps and veterans' benefits. A whopping $6.9 billion could be saved by discontinuing federal grants to often wealthy state and local governments, but the President has avoided that politically unpopular move...
While the buying power of the average Zairian citizen is 70 per cent less today than in 1960, President Mobotu Sese Seko, who "serves the interests of the multinational corporations," is one of the richest men in the world, she said...
Under the new rules, even the richest candidates go broke
Former Prime Minister Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the leading black moderate, was still gamely electioneering around the country in a red-and-white-striped helicopter, accompanied by a dozen armed bodyguards. Generously financed by South African and Rhodesian corporations, Muzorewa runs by far the richest and best organized of all the major parties. Despite offers of free drinks and gifts, however, his crowds remained small and glumly suspicious of the proceedings. Muzorewa charged last week that he had attended "only one meeting where there was no evidence of intimidation...
...place for warmth. Black gauze hangs menacingly. The Lincoln rests like a hearse--Lear's castle--upstage center. Its grille grins, its headlights stare. Seven stars, like seven gods, watch from the rafters. Lear emerges from the automobile, masked in sunglasses, master of his court, eager to dispatch the richest third of his Kingdom to his youngest daughter Cordelia. But Cordelia refuses to flatter her father and the play commences, careening out of control...