Word: wealth
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...routes crisscrossed the globe. One of the most traveled led from Morocco south across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ships bearing salt from Egypt to Greece traversed the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Herodotus describes a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan desert. Venice's glittering wealth was attributable not so much to exotic spices as to commonplace salt, which Venetians exchanged in Constantinople for the spices of Asia. In 1295, when he first returned from Cathay, Marco Polo delighted the Doge with tales of the prodigious value of salt coins bearing the seal of the great...
Thomas Enders is a towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Connecticut Yankee on whom the fates smiled. Born to wealth, educated at Yale and Harvard, he hurtled up through the State Department ranks until, when selected as envoy to Canada at age 43, he was the youngest U.S. ambassador anywhere. Now 50, Enders is Assis tant man of State for Inter-American Affairs and the point man for U.S. pol icy in the Caribbean and Latin America. He is urbane but also aloof, even cold, and almost cynically pragmatic. His blend of tact and two-fistedness resembles the style...
Ever since the Reagan Administration marked Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi as a foremost enemy, the U.S. pur chase of Libyan oil has seemed strangely inconsistent. Oil is virtually Libya's only source of wealth, and the radical strong man has been using profits to train terror ists. One consideration was that some 2,500 Americans in Libya could have been seized by Gaddafi, creating an Iran-style hostage crisis...
...Complete Wargames Handbook, a consultant to the Defense Department and lecturer at U.S. service academies, has facts and figures in reserve. The Soviet Union puts 14% of its gross national product into arms. The U.S. spends 7% of its larger G.N.P., and Japan less than 2% of the earned wealth from its consumer-products society. By some inscrutable jujitsu of the defeated and the disarmed, Japan is winning the peace...
...does not excuse it. Just as we cannot buy greater personal warmth by admiring cold money, so private philanthropy. Whitney realized cannot discharge the government's obligation to care for its people. Our recognition of that duty rests on our individual humanity. As they glory in the myths of wealth, the budge-cutters might remember that...