Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond based on the distribution of wealth," he explains, adding, "Your basic economics would tell us that there's not a bell-shaped curve of distribution of wealth, so people should respond based on capability...
...telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond based on the distribution of wealth," he explains, adding, "Your basic economics would tell us that there's not a bell-shaped curve of distribution of wealth, so people should respond based on capability...
...methods to recover its materials. Once thought to be the solution to China's technology problems, joint ventures--in which Western nations supplied the expertise and technology and the Chinese supplied the raw goods--have fallen on hard times. The Chinese have proved willing to share the wealth, but not always to the satisfaction of foreign firms. And once the plants have been constructed, China has proved unable to take its state-of-the-art knowledge--state of the art in the 1950s and 1960s, that is--and keep the plants running...
...coach Joe Restic says, "If we can stay healthy, we'll be three." A superlative defensive line and a wealth of talented signal-callers should prove the greatest Crimson strengths, and while the squad has some holes to plug, Restic's charges always manage to be competitive...
Such promises have gone over well because of a major grievance that accompanied the country's breakneck growth in the 1970s: a third of the nation's wealth was allowed to concentrate in the hands of 1% of its families. "The General is calling for a more even distribution of our pie," says Economist Kim Mahn Je, head of the Korea Development Institute, a think tank. "In the interest of solidifying internal stability, the General as President is likely to place a great emphasis on the welfare of Korea's workers...