Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cities of under 100,000 population. These centers are the backbone of our country, and need the same influx of investment and development if they are to survive. These communities, like the bigger ones, are faced with eroding tax bases and struggling downtown commercial districts. Yet they have a wealth of architecturally significant buildings. As mayor of a small city, I hope that developers will form partnerships with the public and private sectors to ensure our economic future...
Because he don't increase his wealth...
...peasants who live in Mexico's southeast are the Mexicans closest to their nation's oil wealth, yet least likely to receive a share of it. Those living outside Coatzacoalcos, an oil boom town, complain bitterly about the arrogance of PEMEX, which can unilaterally expropriate their land. They say that the sulfur in the air corrodes the tin roofs of their shacks, and that their cows have died from drinking contaminated water. The land has become less fertile, with crop yields declining by as much as 30 per cent...
...Marxist groups. Benn's left would take Britain out of the European Community, unilaterally scrap all of Britain's nuclear weapons and bar U.S. cruise missiles from British soil. It would abolish the House of Lords, nationalize all important industries and redistribute the nation's wealth. "If we stick to our guns, if we are not diverted," Benn urges his supporters, "we have it in our power in this year 1981 to take the first step forward to bring socialism in our time...
Perhaps no man personifies what Harrison Salisbury calls "the integration of English life and its whole national being within politics" than Michael Foot. Now head of Britain's Labour Party, and a man whose wealth of experience--newspaper editor, literary scholar, political columnist, book critic, and the most respected orator in Britain--he should make the United States thoroughly embarrassed at the previous occupations of her last three presidents: acting, peanut farming, and modeling (yes, Gerald Ford was a fashion model back in the 1930s...