Word: robber
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...local officials and property developers for new public and private projects. Meanwhile, according to a report released last year by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, urban incomes have grown so rapidly that they now exceed rural incomes by more than 300% on average. "China is in the robber-baron stage of its economic development," says Nick Young, editor of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, a quarterly journal on civil society. "People are dispossessed, and that causes social strains...
...what’s more important: the safety of the city’s school children or whether school bus drivers feel ‘spied upon?’” The ensuing two-hundred-word editorial could have been penned by a nineteenth-century robber baron. Also, in case you were wondering: “Guess what happens when courts, not legislators, make laws? There’s a backlash. Duh.” Don’t have...
...laborer in a packinghouse and puts a down payment on a house. Thereafter Jurgis endures a nearly endless stream of misfortune, exploitation, and pain that gives lie to the fantasy of the Happy Immigrant. From the horror of the fertilizer factory to the mansion of a robber baron, Jurgis experiences the extremes of capitalism run rampant...
...play with Joe one last time a few weeks before his death. I went along to a striking fireman's benefit in Acton [London], to see the show, and I had no intention of getting up, but when I heard [Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros] start Bank Robber I felt compelled. And of course it was a fireman's benefit so we played London's Burning at the end. It was very much like our old days - a town hall, and it was for something we felt was important. It somehow seemed right. You now produce the libertines...
...morning of June 17, 1933, seven men--local cops and federal agents--were loading a bank robber named Frank Nash into a car in Kansas City, Mo. Suddenly a voice barked, "Let 'em have it!" and the group was engulfed by a storm of bullets. When the shooting stopped, somebody said, "Everyone's dead in here...