Word: richest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite Folkl's absence, Harvard's sixth womenwill still play in Maples Pavilion, home to one ofthe richest traditions in women's collegebasketball. And for these three women, thatopportunity is the chance of a lifetime...
...BEDFORD, Mass.--The people of New Bedford like to say their town used to be the richest in the world...
...gone through so many cycles," heexplains. "We were once the richest city in theworld because of whaling, and then we had thelargest textile industry in the United States...
...environment is seriously threatened by the prodigal garbage of the world's richest economy. In the President's own boyhood town of Whittier, a part of metropolitan Los Angeles, the once sweet air is befouled with carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, fly ash, asbestos particulates and countless other noxious substances. The Apollo 10 astronauts could see Los Angeles as a cancerous smudge from 25,000 miles in outer space. Airline pilots say that whisky-brown miasmas, visible from 70 miles, shroud almost every U.S. city, including remote towns like Missoula in Montana's "big sky" country...
Maybe technology isn't changing our lives faster than ever, but it certainly seems that way. Did Clarence Birdseye become the richest man in the world? Appear four times on TIME's cover? Did he become, as Bill Gates has, a cultural icon, right up there with the beautiful princess who died with her lover in a car crash in Paris...