Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desert sheiks banked their oil wealth there, took their pleasures there. Money poured in. Multinational companies installed their regional headquarters. Lebanese lawyers would know more about Iraqi law than Iraqi lawyers, or more about Saudi law than Saudis. The Lebanese were cheerfully prepared to do anything for a price...
...industrialized West are sapped by high unemployment rates. Said one French diplomat on the eve of the summit: "If unemployment continues to grow across the Continent, what is a jobless youth to think? He is bound to think that it is ab surd to spend billions in national wealth on armaments...
...miscreants of Watergate have profited handsomely. But of John they have had all of those legal fees to cover. John Dean commands $2,000 to $3,500 on the lecture platform. He sometimes shares the stage with Bob Woodward. But if the soci ety bestows fame and wealth upon people forced out of government in disgrace, what virtues are being proclaimed? How do we then say that the system worked? The phenomenon is comparable to noting that, in an economic sense, Japan and Germany emerged as the winners of World...
...Molyneux, the ideological connection among these protests, demonstrations, unionization movements, conferences and campaigns runs deep. "Most of these problems are tied to great concentrations of wealth and hence power," he begins, retelling a familiar story...
...ways--his talent, his wealth, his arrogance--he is the classic Harvard stereotype, a four-color glossy admission brochure. His father and uncles went here, his brother is in the Class of 1984, and also lives in Adams House. He started wearing a Harvard tie in November of his senior year in high school in hopes of getting in early action. (He did.) On the wall of his intensely messy bedroom are three school pennants, one each from Smith, Wellesley, and Pine Manor...