Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple and unenchanted. Three women in the small town of Eastwicks have shed their husbands and their traditional roles, and become witches. They use their powers to cause all sorts of mischief to townspeople they dislike: they have many male lovers, most of them married men. Along comes a wealth, sexy stranger. Darryl Van Horne. The witches all fall for him, he, after gratifying all three of them for a short while, marries a most unbe-witching girl named Jenny Gabriel. Shocked, the witches hex her (all the magic in the book is flatly effective), riddled with cancer. Jenny dies...
...historical experience. To American workers and businessmen, it is a malignant force that destroys jobs and profits. To Government policymakers, it is a vexing dilemma that stirs impassioned pleas for protectionism. Gargantuan and still growing, the U.S. trade deficit has raised grave fears about the future health and wealth of the American economy...
...Office study, households earning more than $20,000 a year reaped 85% of the tax reductions, while households earning less than $20,000 have paid for two-thirds of the budget cuts. (The Reaganauts counter that the supply-side tax cuts spurred the economy, creating jobs and spreading the wealth...
...just 20 years, terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they guide are meticulously cleansed and staged. All of them lament this fact, from the Pope to the Prince of Wales, and none more than Ronald Reagan on his Old World pilgrimage, but they know their new age of isolation is nevertheless a stark fact of life...
Perhaps because Opus members are typically reticent about their affiliation and many internal matters of the organization, the movement is constantly knocking down wild, unsubstantiated ru mors about its supposed immense wealth and power. Even within the Vatican, there is disagreement about Opus Dei, al though three top-ranking Cardinals are counted among its strong supporters. One veteran official in Rome says there is "a sharp division" at his congregation (a Vatican Cabinet ministry) between defenders of Opus Dei and doubters. He guesses the doubters are a slight majority...