Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally a millionaire," said Calvin McCracken, adding that he had been a millionaire several times before, only to plow his money into other ideas, some of which were not successful enough to a sustain his membership | in the world of mega° wealth. McCracken said he would probably sock his funds into yet another notion, as he always has. (Next time you go to the cinema, as you pass those hot dogs turning on those tubular rollers, think of McCracken. He made a million...
...wishes to oppose these changes by its "rapid deployment force," by permanent power pressure against countries pursuing a policy unpalatable to it. This is a dangerous line. Indeed, is it the Cuban teachers schooling children in Nicaragua who are searching for concessions for Cuba or trying to pocket the wealth of that country? Did the valiant sons of Cuba give military support to independent Ethiopia and Angola at the request of their governments in order to deprive them of their freedom or to interfere in their affairs? No, a thousand times...
Suddenly, the young people's games, rivalries and sexual experimentations assume the edge of urgency. Many of them believe that the grownups will never return; the sublime irresponsibility of the Venturas toward everything but their own wealth and pleasures seems headed toward apotheosis. Some cousins hide in fear, others plot revolution, while others still, in a frenzy they do not understand, tear up the protective fence around Marulanda, breaking the hermetic seal around their lives...
...Creating Wealth, Allen...
...time, however, the Chinese responded with unexpected hostility. Intellectuals either passively resisted or openly condemned the government's efforts. Peasants, who account for 80% of the country's 1 billion or so people and who have benefited in recent years from reforms that allow them to accumulate wealth in return for higher productivity, scorned charges that their rising living standard was evidence of moral decay...