Search Details

Word: wealth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Student One: I am a pre-professional, sometimes known as "pre-wealth". I have no phony ideals, no silly pseudo-social concerns, no false pictures of what I want and how I am going to get it. I want money and I really don't care...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...Colby and Bowdoin were good games to get everyone involved," Sasner said. sharing the point scoring wealth Sunday night were Sasner and Johanna Neilson (three goals apiece), Joslin and Millet (two goals), Karen Carney, Brita Lind, and Nina Simonds (one each...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: Icewomen Swipe Two in Maine | 2/17/1987 | See Source »

...recent years the affluent West has lavished billions of dollars in efforts to feed them. Yet famine relief is a very small part of the roughly $1 trillion in aid that rich nations have given poor ones since World War II in the largest voluntary transfer of wealth in human history. Throughout the world today, thousands of public and private organizations are spending some $35 billion a year to promote development and erase poverty. Groups offering assistance range from behemoths like the World Bank, which annually lends some $16 billion to developing countries, to Irish Rock Singer Bob Geldof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third World Hard Times for Foreign Aid | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

Equally at risk are the political and institutional reforms which Deng has initiated over the past eight years. He had sought to put an end to class struggle in favour of economic development, the century-old search for national wealth and power. But a struggle between "bourgeois" and "socialist" ideas is now inevitable. Can it be contained by newborn and fragile "legal" norms? And how will Deng sustain his opening to the West, the alleged source of China's "spiritual pollution?" As important, Deng's preemptory behaviour in the present crisis has fractured the image of a new, un-Maoist...

Author: By Roderick L. Macfarquhar, | Title: Flowers Clipped in China | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...cast aside, still manages to impart some of his idealism to Ralph. With all this going on, the play is stately in pace, complex in structure, with all sorts of subplots and developments over three long acts. As Yiddische Chekhov, it dwells on the domineering mother, the sniveling new wealth, and the slow death of the beautiful and the valuable under the crushing weight of modern avarice. Naturally, it's also about as subtle as a flying mallet: when someone flashes a life insurance policy, for example, it's the symbolic equivalent of a large black raven alighting...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Theatre Like It Oughta Be | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next