Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program became particularly diverting when shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by one of the Deputies forced a clerk to start broadcasting the names of all the delinquent taxpayers in Ecuador. The poor Indians and mestizos of the countryside, listening on their transistor radios, were delighted at the embarrassment of so many rich merchants. President Arosemena, who was also listening in, realized that the names of many of his supporters would be among those mentioned. He placed an urgent call to his friend Levi Castillo and asked him to stop the reading-by whatever means he could...
Hayes assigns Andover's eleventh-graders stints in photography, painting and construction, uses the gallery's collection-rich in Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Ryder and Bellows-for instruction, and turns the students loose in Andover's four-year-old Arts and Communications Center. He spices his classroom endeavors with as many as 30 shows a year, most of them "teaching exhibits," ranging from didactic displays on industrial design to such far-out spectaculars as last spring's "Feelies Show." In the latter, students were first plunged into a coal-black room, forced to grope their...
...rich but unscrupulous wheelchair-bound tycoon buy the U.S. presidency for his personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...
...growing middle-class population. This slow shift is more significant than it appears. Cambridge traditionally has been pictured not only as a city of neighborhoods (Brattle St. being the Harvard-oriented community with Harvard Square as its shopping center), but also as a city split between rich and poor. It was the Yankees vs. the Irish, or, in a more sophisticated version, the Aristocrats vs. the Immigrants...
Harvard is the richest private University in the nation. Two years ago, its endowment passed $1 billion, and each year it runs a budget of more than $130 million. But if Harvard is big and rich now, it will be bigger and richer ten years from now: the University continues to seek new financial support at an astounding pace. Just last winter President Pusey, in his annual report, listed $160 million of capital needs currently being sought...