Word: richest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...richer communities will be somewhat hamstrung by not being able to increase spending by more than 1.5 percent. But considering that the richest communities now spend than the poorest ones and will not have to reduce spending at all, it seems that Johnny will still be able to sound out B-M-W in Grosse Pointe Park...
...richest rewards come from watching Smith, whose technique is to explore an explosive public event by interviewing hundreds of participants and then impersonating dozens of them, using only their distilled words. As writing it resembles journalism, but in performance -- as she takes on all races, ages and genders -- the impact is that of elegiac art. While in theory each character could be portrayed by a different actor, Smith regards it as essential to have all of them embodied by one person who also remains unmistakably herself, a black woman: "I think the form speaks to the content. It says something...
...have a lot of time to kill and happen to pick up a copy of a University-run propaganda sheet called the Harvard Gazette, you're more than likely to read something about how Harvard is spending too much on benefits. If the trend increases, the richest University in the universe says with a straight face, a financial crisis will ensue...
...that economy may not be eternally resilient. The seven-year drought in the Central Valley cost farmers roughly $1.7 billion. The three days of rioting in 1992 cost 57 lives and $1 billion in destroyed property. Last summer brush fires devoured nearly 1,000 homes in some of the richest enclaves in America. All the while the re- engineering of America's post-cold war economy drained California of 202,000 aerospace jobs, plunging the state into the country's most stubborn recession and lifting unemployment up near 10%. During his three years in office, Governor Wilson has issued...
...morning he appeared before a packed news conference at Moscow's posh Slavyanskaya Hotel, clad in black tuxedo, paisley cummerbund and bow tie. Asked about how his much publicized anti-Semitic remarks square with reports that his father was Jewish, he said he envies Jews because they are "the richest nation in the world." Then he reaffirmed one of his pet projects: replacing Moscow's Jewish television announcers with blue-eyed Russians...