Word: wealth
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...second basis of U.S. power in Europe was America's overwhelming wealth, but last year the nine nations of the European Community surpassed the U.S. in their combined gross national product ($2,380 billion vs. $2,349 billion). The standard of living in parts of Europe is now at least as high as that of the U.S. The Paris subway gleams, new cars crowd the superhighways, and luxurious glass condominiums sprout from the North Sea to the Aegean. Part of this wealth is spent on U.S. goods -Parisians wear Levi's and eat at McDonald...
...purification" against corruption. Last week the Martial Law Command announced the results of a monthlong investigation that followed the sudden arrest often of the country's most prominent citizens. Nine of the ten, it was charged, had chalked up a total of $142.1 million in ill-gotten wealth through "abuse of power...
Nature and human enterprise have endowed the Soviet Union with wealth and power. The prodigious achievements of the U.S.S.R. in mining, agriculture and energy production still conjure up images of the infamous Siberian mines, collective farms and hydroelectric projects of the 1930s, where armies of political prisoners, conscript peasants and idealistic volunteers "built Communism" under the cruel supervision of Joseph Stalin's armed guards and commissars. Today's reality is less harsh, but the profile of the country still bulges with muscle; the recitation of its endowments and achievements is still redolent of brute force, monumentality and projects that dwarf...
...U.S.S.R. also gets poor marks for conservation. The Soviet constitution of 1977 promised "to preserve the purity of air and water, ensure reproduction of natural wealth and improve the human environment." That lofty goal is honored mostly in the breach. Pollution in most urban areas is getting worse every year?not yet as bad as Los Angeles' or Detroit's, but getting there. The campaign to clean up the industrial filth in Lake Baikal?which became an international cause célèbre?has been the exception that proves the rule. Soviet environmentalists usually lose their battles against economic planners...
...debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...