Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kress Library contains 30,000 "treasured volumes, which represent the foundations of economic philosophy and business theory," Rodgers says. "Imagine carefully opening the 1776 first edition of Adam Smith's classic The Wealth of Nations or turning the fresh pages of David Hume's Political Discourses printed 230 years ago," the curator noted...
...litany goes on and it is now chehe-a popular refrain in almost any campaign song. But the most aggravating paradox of plenty receives little attention this country's impressive wealth of highly educated citizens. Properly applied, that brainpower could funnel America's surplus of supplies into its equally abundant stockpile of needs. But each year, few who graduate from Harvard and similar institutions play such a catalyzing role, and most merely contribute...
...decision was a victory for the Reagan Administration and oil interests. Both have been seeking quicker access to the vast wealth of the continental shelf, an estimated 44 billion bbl. of oil, nearly half again as much as all proven reserves. (The U.S. gets about 10% of its domestic production from offshore wells.) However, Clark immediately moved to reassure the coastal states and environmentalists. Under his stewardship, he said, the Interior Department will seek to avoid the battling that characterized the offshore-leasing program in the past, even while it continues to pursue essentially the same pro-development policies...
...computers in Western countries to manipulate duta which is sent out of the country and then back in (much as the English shipped cotton to Manchester, and manufactured cloth back to India). But ultimately, the prospects for a NHO may depend on the reorganization of the world's wealth and resources--a New International Economic Order--which also is being called for by some Third World nations. Meanwhile, rather than negotiate, the U.S. adopts rigid stances and lets isolation build...
Through these and other deals, Rock has amassed a personal fortune estimated to be at least $200 million. Rock does not talk about his wealth, saying only, "I don't like people to count my money. That isn't what turns...