Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than cosmetics is involved though. Says a reporter for the Gannett News Service of his employer: "I really get the feeling that they're trying to take their wealth and put it back into quality." Nowhere is this more evident than in Washington, where the G.N.S. bureau's budget has been raised from $250,000 in 1967 to $3.3 million today. Once content merely to keep Gannett papers posted on the good deeds of their local Congressmen, the Washington editorial staff now numbers 33, covers national and international news in some depth and undertakes a variety...
...democracies, no Communist or totally socialist economy has remained a democracy for long. And every democracy practices some version of capitalism. The reason is clear: political freedom is impossible without economic freedom. As the British poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc noted, "The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself...
...local levels. The third step is to increase the supply of goods by giving tax incentives for saving and investment and to relax the regulations that force business to channel scarce capital into projects that may or may not be good for society but that create no new wealth...
...nation's power elite, which shapes and guides the course of the economy as a whole, practices a democratic ideal that individualistic Americans claim as their own but often seem to ignore: the spirit of compromise and consensus. This has enabled the group-oriented Japanese to apportion wealth and nurture growth in one of the world's most cramped and populous countries...
...also assumed-and no one is hesitant about putting the assumption into direct speech-that she will make it her business to attract a man of suitable wealth and submit to marriage. "Marriage gives us respectability, my dear," explains her grandmother. Sybylla is considered to be plain, and she is given to understand that she had better not be choosy (Actress Judy Davis, the sly and lively redhead who is Sybylla, is, of course, very attractive...