Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy makers have failed to give adequate consideration to the potential impact of Mexico's policy towards the conflict in El Salvador. Yet Mexico's continuing economic growth, its oil wealth and its internal political stability have sharply increased its prestige, capabilities and willingness to influence developments in the Caribbean basin and Central America...
Dominguez said he is also optimistic about the project because Venezuela's oil wealth allows it to devote large sums to educational projects...
...long time after World War II that formula worked, but decades of Keynesian policies have now trapped the economy in a blind alley. The Government taxes away too much of the wealth generated by private business and wastes it in often unproductive expenditures. Though individual industries may overproduce, supply in the economy as a whole no longer grows fast enough either to provide jobs for all the people who want them or to absorb the demand created by Government outlays. The result: the nation suffers from simultaneous unemployment and inflation...
...Pont never ran dry; neither did John D. Rockefeller, Henry Ford, Joseph Kennedy or Henry R. Luce. Epstein tips his mortarboard to these classic American gogetters. In a series of biographical sketches, he admires their energy and single-mindedness and the uncomplicated relish they took in pursuing knowledge, wealth and power. He understands the influences that gave their ambitions strength and direction: the Enlightenment and flowering of scientific curiosity; the Puritan ethic that placed religion in the service of profit; a vision of industrial progress that would free men from donkey work; a dream of dynasty in which rewards would...
...remarks predictably roused Iranian furies. "How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament. "Not even the entire wealth of the U.S. is enough to compensate Iran for the crimes of the deposed Shah committed against our people under the protection of America." Yet the very intensity of such reactions indicated that Reagan's message may have hit home at a crucial juncture-a fact that in no way displeased the Carter Administration. Confessed a State Department official: "One is tempted to say, 'Right...