Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew also favors a traditional wedding script. Charles vowed to "share" his wealth with his bride, but Andrew will undertake to hand his over, declaring, "With all my worldly goods, I thee endow." Inevitably, there is speculation about whether Fergie or Andrew is getting the better deal...
...extend the economic revolution from the countryside to the cities. Moves like the sudden dropping of price controls have put unwelcome stress on household budgets. Food prices soared by a previously unheard-of 30% last year, and the overall inflation rate jumped to 9%. Meanwhile, opportunities for increased wealth have created fertile ground for corruption. Bureaucrats have taken kickbacks from enterprises in return for supplying them goods at subsidized prices. The products are then resold on the open market for hefty profits. Other officials have installed family members in businesses that then arrange lucrative deals through party connections. Practices like...
...This particular baby will probably need both and then some, for it is a sobering symbol of the shocking rapidity at which the world's population is multiplying," said the president of the private institute, which seeks a more even balance between the wealth of different geographical areas...
...college player in America . . . One of the most happy people you'd ever want to see . . . He could jump through the roof." Like picks 1 through 17 in last week's draft, Bias was black. It is such a specious dream, to become a professional star and achieve unlimited wealth ("I'd like to buy a Mercedes," Bias declared first off in Boston). The thought of a young man dribbling almost all the way there and dropping dead is too bitter. If he killed himself, it is unbearable...
...century, when robber barons were amassing embarrassingly large fortunes, charity sometimes served as a form of atonement, a guilt tax for living so well. Nowadays, says David Rockefeller, who as chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has overseen the donation of $342 million of his family's immense wealth to worthy causes, philanthropy can be, well...