Word: tweaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admitted rich person and a confessed shareholder. What Lewis fails to mention is that this break for Forbes would also be a break for anybody else who owns stocks or mutual funds, which at last count was 25 million households, including Lewis'. One of the favorite ploys of any tweaker of the rich is to oppose any reform, no matter how it may benefit society in general, so that the rich cannot benefit...
...rich get richer. Short of a communist takeover, the rich seem to find ways to get richer no matter what. Therefore, to oppose a worthy reform just to tweak Forbes and deny him the goodies is foolish. But that is what Lewis seems to be doing as self-appointed tweaker...
...with $50 in her pocket and a fake I.D. She left a suicide note on her bed. "Let's just say my family really sucked," she says. "I can't say who I hate more, my mom or my dad. God, I need a cigarette!" One of the tweakers tumbles into the room to announce she has just found a small fragment of a cigarette. Elated, Jean follows the tweaker down the hallway...