Word: wealth
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...Reagan's victory. John LeBoutillier, 27, a wealthy Harvard Business School graduate, was considered nothing but an upstart until he defeated eight-term Democrat Lester Wolff, 61, of Long Island. LeBoutillier is the author of two books: Primary, a scenario of a Saudi prince who parlays his oil wealth into political power, and Harvard Hates America, a collection of essays that take a jaundiced view of the university and liberalism...
Rockefeller's spending became the main issue of the campaign. Moore, whose expenses totaled $814,000, denounced his opponent for "trying to buy the election," but Rockefeller deflected the criticism by arguing that his inherited wealth insulated him from pressure by special-interest groups. Moore belittled Rockefeller's claim that he wielded clout in Washington in developing a national coal policy favorable to the state. Rockefeller, however, took credit for West Virginia's increased coal production (up to 112 million tons in 1979, the highest level since 1973). He now has his second term-and possibly...
...tooth-and-nail. Crockett says, "Harvard doesn't like to give up money. They say they're broke, but then they build a $100,000 building." Bonislawski says, "It really gets to me when Harvard says workers are a dime a dozen. We should have the benefits of the wealth we help produce...
...rest of the planet as if it were a warehouse to be looted, it meant trouble for a few generations of Americans. But now we are trying the same thing in a day when the rest of the world demands and deserves a share of the world's wealth. In an age when the fact of scarcity--the idea Reagan and his men hate most, that they try to hex away with statistics about oil reserves and mineral supplies--makes even the myth of an ever-expanding industrial economy seem ludicrous...
...foreign policy technicians of the Right spent much of the campaign assailing the "new world order" theorists they found lurking in the State Department, those men who have seen that America and Western Europe can no longer gather in all the world's wealth, leaving whole continents ravaged. Abdnor, Dan Quayle, Steve Symms--these men subscribe to the Reagan "placed here between two great oceans" theory of the American mission. To the scientists who predict that pollution, and overproduction, and depletion spell disaster, the Republicans shout Pollution is From Trees. There are New Sources. We Can Get America Moving Again...