Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a wealth of good will there," says Glenn Spokesman Greg Schneiders. "But it's superficial and uninformed." Indeed, out on the campaign trail these days, the question most asked of the first American to orbit the earth is what it was like to step on the moon (He never did.) Among the 15,000 people who turned out for the Fourth of July parade in Clear Lake, Iowa, in which Glenn rode in a 1964 Chevrolet convertible, was Jim Conrin, 63, farmer and loyal Democrat. Mondale, he said disparagingly, was "an establishment politician," but he noted...
...abolished in 1949, and order is maintained largely by 7,000 lightly armed civil and rural guardsmen. The country's 1982 per capita income of $1,164 is the second highest, after Panama, in Central America, and its society is largely lacking in the unhealthy extremes of wealth and poverty that afflict Guatemala and El Salvador...
TIME has learned that among the documents seized were lists of code names, like those a bookie would keep to identify bettors. One name recorded was "Mr. McGoo," a sometime pseudonym for Governor Brown when he placed bets, according to an official involved in the case. Brown, whose wealth is estimated at $30 million, concedes that he made wagers with Lambert. Brown also admits that he withdrew $1.3 million in cash during 1981 and 1982 from a Miami bank, much of it to cover gambling losses. Said he last week: "I spent some of it, saved some...
Some of that tension is evident today. There are now 19 million people at all levels of American government, and they absorb 36% of the wealth that this nation produces. More and more, their ideas collide with a populace that finds the tax burden too great, regulations too profuse, waste too prevalent and sympathy for ordinary people too limited...
...Creating Wealth, Allen...