Word: richness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these developments, Washington feels, will impel the rich nations in the so-called Group of Ten to hasten their efforts toward an agreement on a new international currency to supplement dollars, pounds and gold in world trade, as the U.S. has been urging. The problem, of course, is old, and even in the relatively uncomplicated days of 1720, English Satirist Jonathan Swift recognized it in a memorable quatrain...
Irishmen drink the rich, dark brew known as Guinness Stout pretty much as a patriotic duty. Of all the stout consumed in the country, 75% is produced by 206-year-old Arthur Guinness Son & Co., which has grown so large that it is a keystone of the Irish economy. Guinness employs 4,300 people, more than anyone else except the government. Indirectly, it supports 26,000 employees of 14,500 pubs-and 16,000 Irish farmers depend on Guinness to buy 100,000 tons of barley annually. The company pays $23 million yearly in excise taxes, has lent the government...
...gentleman's bath, and the zebra turns domestic. On balance, the kid himself might seem the worst behaved, but Zebra isn't that kind of bestiary. Producer-Director Ivan Tors, who made Rhino! and the Flipper series, views all fauna through globs of sentiment. In a rich and foamy climax...
...character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles did not immerse himself in cultural affairs, as his more renowned brother Henry did. Nor did he show the slightest interest in becoming President of the U.S., like his great-grandfather and grandfather. Instead, he set out to get rich as quickly as possible and became president of the Union Pacific Railway...
...article has some important ideas, as well as being rich in quotable phrases. To the argument that the authors of the fourteenth amendment did not intend for it to be used to equalize political districts, he presents considerable evidence that deference to the intentions of the framers of constitutional provisions would lead "not just to mal-apportioned legislatures, but to segregated schools, a revival of the Federal Sedition Act, and unfettered state control over speech, religion, press and assembly as well." He contends, in a bold generalization, that such deference is nothing more than an "Occidental variant of ancestor worship...