Word: wealth
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Although blessed with challenging work, social position and comparative wealth, doctors contend with long hours and the knowledge that a single mistake can maim, disable or even kill. These pressures often carry over into their personal lives. Says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Robert Litman: "By and large, doctors are not good, steady companions. They're good providers but lousy lovers...
...Smith joined the professional fight game and suddenly began flaunting great wealth. He carted around flight bags full of cash and paid boxers four or five times as much money as other promoters did. Last May he offered Larry Holmes, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, $1.5 million to sign an exclusive contract with MAPS. Holmes says that Smith came into the boxer's office with two Wells Fargo cashier checks for $500,000 each and a bag stuffed with $50 and $100 bills...
...broad look at societies from the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia to the blacks of Albany, N.Y., Gilder has produced a 306-page ode to the economic and moral benefits of unfettered capitalism. Some Reaganauts expect Wealth and Poverty to become a classic of supply-side economics, the school of thought that believes Government policy should focus more on helping private enterprise boost the output of goods and services...
Gilder maintains that steeply progressive tax rates and Big Government destroy wealth and perpetuate poverty. He contends that federal levies, which skim off as much as 50% of income from wages and 70% of earnings on interest and dividends, deaden incentives to work, save, invest and take risks. The result: instead of using their savings for productive investments, too many people seek tax shelters and pour their money into "gold, baubles, flimflam films and real estate." High taxes are responsible for the U.S.'s While poor preparing the productivity growth because Administration's so economic policy much money...
Ever since Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1776, capitalism has been generally extolled as the most efficient economic system or as the philosophy most compatible with political liberty. But even capitalism's most ardent supporters have had trouble answering charges that it is morally bankrupt because it appeals to people's greed for profit. Forcefully confronting these charges, Gilder maintains that the entrepreneur is not a selfish accumulator of wealth but the creative figure in society, who uses his talents and capital in risky ventures that have no guarantee of reward. The businessman...