Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit. He is convinced that the magnificent goose, whose golden eggs Mondale loves to distribute, does not live in the White House but resides in the private sector, fed by the vision of great reward and the fear of failure. Government now threatens rather than encourages the creation of wealth, the source of American strength, by Reagan's lights. He does not know Government very well, nor does he fully understand what has happened to this society and the world during his long life. But his unshaken belief that individual initiative is still the main ingredient of each person...
...future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they ring the phone off the hook. Everybody's become my cousin...
...inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground...
This prosperity would not come the old Republican way, by letting the free market create wealth that might then trickle down to the lower classes. It would come instead by using Government to create jobs. Through a host of alphabet agencies-the NRA, the CCC, the WPA-the New Deal pumped money into the economy, artificially creating demand for goods and services. It took World War II to really spur production and cure the Depression, but by then F.D.R. had won a victory of the spirit. His programs attacked not only poverty but helplessness. The poor and dispossessed began...
...exclusive control of all college football broadcasts, a control that is now measured in big money. For 1982-85, the N.C.A.A. negotiated $281 million worth of TV deals covering its 509 members that have intercollegiate football teams. Contracts with ABC and CBS contained numerous restrictions designed to spread the wealth. For example, they guaranteed television appearances to both large and small schools, established limits on the number of games that could be broadcast, barred any team from appearing more than six times in two years and effectively set the price teams could receive for a broadcast...