Word: wealth
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...Krause, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Krause foresees a further three-point decline in the prime rate at banks, which has already fallen from 16% to 12% since July. A rally in the stock and bond markets has added some $100 billion to the wealth of investors, and should spur consumer spending. By the end of 1983, Krause said, the U.S. could be growing at a rate of 3%, a bracing tonic for Asian export industries...
King repeatedly reveals his own life-long obsessions with fame and wealth, with Cadillacs, beautiful women, and horse races. "Miami was a personality town," he says in the very first paragraph of the book, "and I was a personality." Though King claims to be over his obsession, the reader wonders whether this book about his life with the stars is only another manifestation of his drive...
...food. Members of the Gray Panthers, who demonstrated outside the meeting, chanted, "No ifs, no ands, no buts, no cost-of-living cuts." In fact, there is evidence that putting a cap on benefits would be justified. Tying Social Security payments to inflation amounts to a huge transfer of wealth from the young, whose earnings are not similarly protected, to the aged, only about 15% of whom are classified by the Government as poor-roughly the same proportion as in the entire U.S. population...
...humanity" argument, and an intensive media campaign have apparently won over several thousand Common-wealth citizens. "There has been more mail on this subject than any bill on anything else in the State House in the last two years," said King...
...think about it," said Roemer McPhee, who was a young lawyer in Ike's White House, "the more I believe that President Eisenhower's indispensable attribute was his restraint. He never used too much of his power. He never spent too much of the country's wealth. He never insisted on having his way all the time...